Hope it doesnt hit you. Stay safe and heed the warnings. Early August 2020 tropical storm Isaias Southern New England. Trees down and power outages abound. Three weeks later a small tornado went through our area. Same scenario again. Im still picking up black locust from those storms.
Yes sir. Pretty nerve racking hearing it slam into your house wondering if things are gonna start getting torn apart. Wind is a powerful thing. Not to be messed with. I've seen small micro bursts that are about half the wind speed of this take full 4 x 8 x 3/4" sheets of plywood off of a forklift and throw them like playing cards 40-50 feet away, slamming them into a house. The huge tarp we were trying to cover the building with (it was a tear off remodel and it was also raining), ended up wrapping around me tight as a mummy. I couldn't breathe for probably 30-40 seconds. Almost got blown off the second story of this house. Took two other men to pull it back, and unwrap me.
Scary stuff. I had a tarp flip the ladder and i was "trapped" on the roof once. It was weighted doen on the ground well enough...or so i thought. Ive lost plywood in the wind a few times. Once a 4x4 piece flipped over my head and i came straight down the ladder. One story and landed on my feet. Sore for a few days but thats it. Trying to paper a roof either with 15# or the newer synthetics not a fun experience...especially by yourself.
I was driving a empty box truck when high winds pushed the truck up on two wheels. Seemed like it lasted for hours even though it was seconds.
BA by and large was spared. If you would have went through mid town Tulsa you would have really saw some crazy sights !! Looked like a war zone. Old growth park close to my office lost a ton of trees. Sad really. Most of it will end up as mulch too.
I pointed it to the house and ended up in Ft McCoy for a last minute load before going home. this smoke haze is wreaking havoc on my lungs too.
