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Oh, have experienced lots of wild weather in my lifetime.
Started off the wild was arriving in Topeka Kansas the week after the 1966 F-5 tornado went for 22 miles through the city. The damage was unlike anything I had ever seen but then I was only 13 years old. First hand look at homes blown off their foundations. My grandparents thought it was heading right for their home but took a diffetent path through the city. They said it was 4 blocks wide .
Another probably "not so wild" for people who live in northern US or Canada but it sure was for someone from So. Calif. We always winter vacationed, when I was married, to our condo in Jackson Hole Wyo. That winter was extremely cold.....like -40F cold. I was out walking in town & my lungs were crackling when I breathed. I had no idea it was that cold until I got back to the condo & saw the weather channel. Ugh, we were out skiing in -20F those days. One run down the hill & my feet were frozen. Took forever to thaw them out. Made several ski runs that day before I had enough.
Moved to Ky in May 2007. 2nd winter here (2009) there was an ice storm several days long. Then snow & more ice. Totaled a week & the electric went out for the whole
week. I did buy a gas generator so I could cook canned soup & charge my phone. My neighbor had 22 horses & lived so far away he couldn't drive here so I hiked across my field on the ice, climbed his gate & fed his horses & broke up ice in their water buckets. It was interesting because my woods on my farm sounded like a rice krispies bowl of cereal. The ice was so heavy on the trees it was continually breaking branches on the trees & actually broke many trees in my woods. Later in the week I drove through the Ky River Palasaides to my friends house to warm up a little. The ice on all the trees looked like everything was covered in crystal & all the fences too. It was actually the most beautiful thing I have ever seen.
A year ago in May I was upstairs & heard this horrible pounding noise & realized it was hail....not small hail but hail the size of my hand (bigger than a golf ball) it was interesting to watch it bounce on the grass & land on my front deck. Oh ya, I had no idea the damage it was doing to my almost new roof I had put on 5 years earlier. Insurance covered another new roof & rain gutters cause it was damaged so bad. Metal Barn roofs actually ended up with huge hail sized holes in them.
This year we have had bad winds with our storms....I could actually feel the 75+mph gusts moving the walls of my brick house. Needless to say I had a huge tree come down in my front side field & 10 trees were blown down in my woods. It actually blew metal off around my front door & several areas of my learguards on my gutters need replaced.
Our storms have been strange this year. I have a weather app that shows all the lightning strikes. It is like the lightning is doing target practice right over the 10 mile radius around my farm.....solid yellow over the area not just single strikes here & there. The lightning has been so continuous in many storms you can look out at night & everything stays lit up like daylight.
We just had another massive wind storm hit a few weeks ago & a huge chunk of one of my side field trees landed in the road. Luckily the state road department was out in an hour to clear it off the road.
Our electric linemen & road department around here are the best. Seriously wild weather is becoming the norm in my life.
We did have a small tornado that hit on the other side of town this last spring. It actually started right across the street from where a friend of mine lives....like I said....strange weather seems to be the norm in my life
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Leo's favorite place was in the passenger seat of my truck. We went everywhere together like this.
Leo my soulmate will live in my heart FOREVER Nov 1, 2002 - Dec 16, 2018
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