Windy Wind

So much wind and it just doesn’t want to stop. A day to two days before the wind was to come in, we were being warned over radio and newspaper, that winds would be up to 60mph. We were being advised to take things out of our yards that could easily blow away and they advised not to leave smaller pets outside.

            Sure enough Tuesday this week I was driving to school and it was pretty windy and raining at the same time. It was no big deal, but when I left school to drive back to Winona, 45 minutes away, I had noticed a huge change in the wind. I was kind of feeling a little nervous about the drive the next day.

            While at work that night, all I could hear was the sound of the wind just howl past the house of the lady I take care of. When I left and was walking to my car that night, I could have sworn I could have blown away. I could notice that the wind had taken a lot of the leaves off the trees and they were blowing everywhere.

            When I awoke in the morning, I could see the damage that a lot of the wind had done to peoples yards, there were branches from trees and random things from peoples yards blown all over the place. When my mom woke up this morning to take the dogs out, she noticed that a garbage can, that had been pretty well contained in a spot on my deck, had blown all the way down to the road.

            Driving to school that morning was quite a workout, I drive a suburban, so wind hits the vehicle and pushes it around a lot. Going along the river it was pushing me everywhere. I was so glad to make it to school without any major issues. But the funniest thing was when I was on the Cass Street and 7^th Street intersection, a set of stoplights for the Cass Street side had been blown to face the 7^th Street. I couldn’t believe it, that’s some pretty powerful wind to do something like that.

            The best was yet to come; when I got to class I got to hear all the stories people had to talk about with what the wind did to them. I thought the best was when this one lady said she was going to leave and she saw a tree down at the end of her road, she was pissed, and then she saw one of the other guys that lived on a road coming down to leave. He saw the tree and said he would be back with his chainsaw, she thought to herself how perfect he came down when he did, because he does landscaping maintenance work for a job. So when he got back, he cut and she threw logs. She said it would have probably been hilarious to see them doing this, because it was so assembly line like.

            So when it came time to go home, I was a little nervous, but I figured the sooner I got going the sooner I’d be home. So once again, I was holding the wheel for dear life, hoping not to be blown around to bad, when I was about 15 minutes from being home, my thumb started to fall asleep, I thought that was pretty funny, because it told me I was holding the wheel very tight. Soon enough I was home, and very glad to be. I just hope tomorrow isn’t bad, I’ll keep my fingers crossed.