OT Went for a ride this afternoon.

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lcs37

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Good old New Mexico High Desert Weather.

Sitting at the computer this afternoon, heard this bang, bang. Looked out the window. 30 ft away is my garage and a carport enclosed shed where I park my Pick Up Truck. High winds had cracked the wood cross beams in several placed and was lifting my metal panel roof quite high. I expected, any moment to see it sailing off in the wind. Several panels had already been torn off. I raced out, cut some para cord to lash it down. Standing in the bed of my truck, trying to hold the roof down and secure the lashing, gust came up and up I went with the roof. Only about 2 feet, I'm 194 lbs but it lifted me up like a feather. I hung on until gust quit and quickly lashed the beam down, along with another beam that had been cracked. Losing the metal bit by bit, probably all of it before the night is over.
Quite a ride!!! Aledgedly only 46 mph gusts. I don't know about that.

Will call Insurance tomorrow and see what they will do. LOL

Now if I could just get the wind to blow toward Reno in March and I had a big kite, ?????
 
Tell me about it. Even the weatherman a hundred thirty miles away in Reno talks bout Hawthorne being the "banana belt of Nevada" and then goes on to talk about "those pesky 100 mile an hour winds" we occassionally get offsetting the nice climate.

I've got an 8x12 shed that will be heading for Utah and parts east ( maybe if it gets to Kansas it'll pick up Dorothy and Toto and make it to Oz ) inside another year. Last fall I saw the roof coming up a foot and a half on the one side. Got a couple concrete blocks on the roof, then the sides started bowing outward. Then the roof bent and fell in in the middle, leaving the sides standing on their own.

How's that saying go? You can't fix the roof when it's raining and when it ain't raining, there ain't no problem?
 
PS: Minden, NV, right over the hill from South Shore in Tahoe, 60 miles south of Reno, is Mecca for glider pilots. That's where they come to try for their diamond pins for whatchamacallit. Whatever their big scores are. Guy I used to know took off from So. Lake Tahoe airport in his Bonanza, found an thermal, shut down his engine and then proceeded to climb all the way out of the Tahoe basin and higher and higher till he turned the engine back on to land in Reno.
 
I can still remember, as a kid in Hobbs, when people came in from Odessa, through a sandstorm, with frosted windshields, headlight lenses, and bright, shiny bare metal where paint had been. Looks lke things haven't changed much.
 
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