HIGH WIND WARNING

Gusts up to 60 MPH in my area starting tomorrow afternoon through Thurs. AM. Potential for even higher gusts in SE MN. Heavy Rain and even an outside shot at tornadoes. Not your typical December weather by any stretch.

Guess I’ll bring my garbage and recycling can inside tomorrow. Will be interesting how many giant inflatable snowmen, Santa and Rudolph lawn decorations will end up in the trees.

Looks like I got the dreaded dual-post malfunction

Too much of a walleye chop to take the boat in….err no?

BigWerm wrote:

Too much of a walleye chop to take the boat in….err no?

I’m going tomorrow before it gets here

Talking 50-60mph on Superior.

Dutchboy wrote:

Talking 50-60mph on Superior.

Wonder if they’ll be any wind surfers out there!!

Thanks for the reminder! Going to take the flag down now. Might have to keep the chickens in the coop tomorrow so they don’t blow away!

Dan wrote:

Thanks for the reminder! Going to take the flag down now. Might have to keep the chickens in the coop tomorrow so they don’t blow away!

Good idea, I took mine down also

Dutchboy wrote:

Talking 50-60mph on Superior.

And waves up to 31 FEET!

Dem are big ones

Forecasted 1′ or less tomorrow morning in Duluth, then getting UGLY Thursday

We have similar forecast for 50-60mph winds. Looking at the hourly forecast 27mph at 11:00 tonight is the highest prediction. Maybe like my wet patio this morning with a zero percent chance of rain last night. Maybe neighbor was playing in the sprinkler last night.

Less than ideal time to just have a couple exterior walls up on a house

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ThunderLund78 wrote:

Not your typical December weather by any stretch

Hopefully there isn’t a repeat of the nasty storms in Kentucky last week. The conditions are ripe for it later today.

gimruis wrote:

<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>ThunderLund78 wrote:</div>
Not your typical December weather by any stretch

Hopefully there isn’t a repeat of the nasty storms in Kentucky last week. The conditions are ripe for it later today.

Either way they are going to get some rain and wind that is less than ideal for there situation.

buckybadger wrote:

Less than ideal time to just have a couple exterior walls up on a house

Hope you have some strong kickers in place.

They are showing the storm itself to be moving/tracking at 60-70 mph.. That is crazy! I look forward to watching it but not what damage it might do.

I just built a roof over the patio and had 18 inches of snow on it last weekend. Now it should see 50 MPH winds. Good test for it anyways.

I’m going to ride it out on the river…or go down with the ship.

Then again I could be in the Harbor Bar.

buschman wrote:

They are showing the storm itself to be moving/tracking at 60-70 mph.. That is crazy! I look forward to watching it but not what damage it might do.

I had to work last Saturday morning. I thought I’d see how the storm rolled out over the last 24hrs. So I popped up a 24hr radar. The storm with all the Tornado’s went from the boarder of Texas/Mexico, too Lake Michigan/Chicago in 12 hours!!! It came through extremely fast!! I haven’t looked today, but sounds like this one might be doing the same thing. Just a little further north..

Brian Klawitter wrote:

I’m going to ride it out on the river…or go down with the ship.

Then again I could be in the Harbor Bar.

Hope you have some strong kickers in place.
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Our contractor is spending the entire afternoon bracing on top of what he uses for traditional bracing. We have the main exterior walls up with no roof trusses. Our family owns a lull as does our contractor. We’re going to position the fence from each of those those snug against what should be the walls that take the prevailing wind. Other than that, we are hoping the large open windows will let a lot of the wind blow through the structure.

Everything is insured, except my sanity

If it is braced correctly you have nothing to worry about. Have had a lot of homes survive this type of wind.

My kid had the the rafters come down a few years back, not good. 😟

We may not see this kind of wind that often in MN. I have been in North Dakota a couple of times where there was 60-70 MPH wind with 100+ MPH gust. It literally blew my house across the ice. When I put my ice spikes on I had to lean into it so far I thought I was going to face plant. My uncle was blown over and had to go to the hospital from hitting his head. Hope everyone stays safe.

I think my neighbors 10 foot tall inflatable Frosty the Snowman is going to get blown to the North Pole!

-J.

Deuces wrote:

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I’m going to ride it out on the river…or go down with the ship.

Then again I could be in the Harbor Bar.

IS THAT ALL YOU GOT??? ~Lt Dan

they are talking 34ft. waves on Superior..
Holy crapola!

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Got a flight to catch down to Savannah tomorrow evening to rendezvous with my Southern Bell so them winds need to die down before that.

Eelpoutguy wrote:

Got a flight to catch down to Savannah tomorrow evening to rendezvous with my Southern Bell so them winds need to die down before that.

You might just make record time.

I can’t get there soon enough!!!!!!!!!

Jon Jordan wrote:

I think my neighbors 10 foot tall inflatable Frosty the Snowman is going to get blown to the North Pole!

The weather man said if you have those inflatable xmas decorations on your lawn best to take them in before this wind event.

Hopefully Gordon Lightfoot dont have to make another song about the waves on the big lake