[AT] Scary wind damage.

Fri Mar 13 07:10:37 PDT 2009

I can't imagine trying to do that Charlie, the wind sounds must really start to frazzle your nerves after a while. I guess the ONLY saving grace with a hurricane is that it does give you time to prepare i.e. board up or leave. Mike

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From: "charliehill" <charliehill at embarqmail.com>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Subject: Re: [AT] Scary wind damage.
Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 08:33:28 -0400

Farmer, if that storm had lasted for half a day you'd know what it like to 
ride out a bad hurricane.

Glad you got through it with only minor damage.  It could have been very 
bad.   I hear they are having more high water/flood problems out your way 
also?

Charlie
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From: "Indiana Robinson" <robinson46176 at gmail.com>
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Subject: [AT] Scary wind damage.

> In the wee hours of Wednesday morning I was awakened by the sound of
> fierce wind and driving rain. We don't usually hear much of those
> noises since much of this house is stone and it is big enough that
> sound doesn't usually travel well in it. If Diana is in one end of the
> house and I in the other neither of us can yell and make ourselves
> heard by the other. We seldom hear much noise from outside unless we
> have windows open.
> This wind was absolutely screaming and roaring like you would expect
> from a twister. I don't normally react much to weather except to check
> windows and doors. Most storms I just sleep through. I went to the
> front of the house to check things and went to the slant wall solar
> room to look out. it didn't take me long to back out of there.  :-)
> Lots of glass flexing going on.
> The barn where the farm shop is sits only about 100 feet from the
> house but I could not see it at all. It seemed more like a wave than
> rain moving straight sideways. I believe that every window in the
> house was shaking. I don't know if the house was shaking or if that
> was me.   :-)   I was sleeping pretty soundly when it woke me
> suddenly.
> I've sat out a lot of storms in my time but this bit was stronger than
> anything I had ever seen here. I went to wake Diana up to head to the
> basement but by the time I woke her it had settled back to normal
> storm levels. Since it was dark and we couldn't see much we went back
> to bed. I fully expected to find some serious damage the next morning
> but was surprised to see little. There were small branches and twigs
> around and we lost one big limb but that was about it. We have had so
> much high wind this year about anything lose has already blown down.
> Yesterday evening Son Scott and I were driving past our barns down the
> road to the west and I spotted what looked like some damage to the big
> barn there. We drove in the barnyard at the house and dropped the
> tandem trailer and went back to investigate. Sure enough, on one
> corner there was some damage to about 6 feet of wall where the shed
> roof on that part had lifted slightly and the top of the wall had
> moved out about 16". Then I realized that the bottom of the corner
> post was sitting about a foot farther north than normal. OK, how did
> that post move like that? We started checking the rest of the barn and
> got a shock. Much of the east half of that barn had moved at least 8"
> to the north... One post in the center of the barn had moved 8" to 10"
> north and was barely sitting on the edge of its stone base. Other post
> were leaning since their base had not moved but the tops had. Several
> beam joints showed movement.
> This old barn has been needing some work for some time and is well
> over 100 years old but I never worried about its strength before.
> These old barns are pretty tough and this one is pretty good sized. It
> is at least 36' x 64' with loft in all of it except for one drive
> through and one small end section with a shed roof.
> We mostly use it for keeping some of our old tractors in and for hay
> storage. I was going to move 4 old tractors in there this week but now
> I will be moving the three currently in there out until I have it
> stabilized. Several of the original mortise & tenon joints show
> damage, a couple pretty bad. It has a couple of large openings to the
> south and we assume that the wind built enough pressure inside to
> partially lift the east end. We believe the west end didn't get
> shifted since a large pair of sliding doors in back at that end had
> broken loose and swung out at least 6 feet at the bottom and likely
> relieved the pressure buildup there.
> Something else that I have never seen before was that here were two
> flatbed hay wagons parked outside near the barn and as we were looking
> around Scott suddenly realized that he had parked his truck where the
> wagons had been sitting. The wind had blown those two wagons about 80'
> to the north east from where they were parked. One was backed up to
> one small grain bin and the other was about 30 feet away backed up
> against another small grain bin. I've sure never had that happen
> before...
> It all seemed to be localized in a small area. Less than 400' to the
> south of the house Diana had picked up a batch of dried willow sticks
> and piled them up. The wind never moved the first little twig and that
> stuff weighs almost nothing.
> I guess I will feed the horses this morning and then move the old
> tractors to safety and start figuring out where to start on getting
> that barn stabilized before the next spring storm.
>
>
> -- 
> "farmer"
>
> "Good clean muck never hurt nobody!!!"
> Morris Moulterd
>
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> Francis Robinson
> Central Indiana USA
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