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Endless Wind

rusty6

rusty6

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East central Sask.
I don't ever recall such a windy spring. Its taking down green trees. I had to miss spraying a part of a wheat field as this massive poplar had blown out by the roots right across part of the field. I cut it up today (way too windy to spray still) and even in four foot lengths it was all I could handle to drag off the field. Hard to imagine that when my great uncle homesteaded this land they had to haul in logs from about 20 miles North as there were none big enough here to build barns and cabins with.
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Lots of wind here too in southern Minnesota. In "growing up" times I remember family commenting that the wind blowing makes the wheat grow. Some folks around here say the wind makes the corn grow. A good thing about wind is that it keeps the mosquitoes away. Do mosquitoes bother in SK?
 
(quoted from post at 11:36:23 06/15/20) Do mosquitoes bother in SK?
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Some years they make me think of the ten plagues of Egypt. One year I actually bought beekeeper style hat with the mesh hanging down to protect my head and face while running the riding mower. This year they are bad enough if the wind ever stops blowing but that does not seem to happen very often.
 
On June 31, 1942 the southwest wind stopped blowing in Stavely. Two of the old elevators fell over. Hope it lets up around your part of the world. unc
 
Same thing in N MN, last week we had very strong and spotty winds at our cabin/tree farm. These are black ash, at least 20 inches in diameter, 60 feet tall. Some uprooted, some broke just above the ground, some broke off 20 feet high. About 20 that I know of, lots of firewood!

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We have never had so much weather coming from the NE this time of year here in
central NY. The clouds are moving totally from the wrong way this spring/early summer.
Loren
 
(quoted from post at 17:18:15 06/15/20) We have never had so much weather coming from the NE this time of year here in
central NY. The clouds are moving totally from the wrong way this spring/early summer.
Loren
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Our rains seem to come from South and go North unlike in the past when most of our "weather" came from West to East.
 
(quoted from post at 19:24:31 06/15/20) The 2 times I was in Saskabush, it blew HARD every day. Didn't look forward to going back. And haven't.
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In the Southwest it is a pretty windy part but here where I am we don't usually get so much and day after day. This year is out of the ordinary. Makes you really appreciate a quiet day when it comes along.
Great scenery today anyway.

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We had terrible winds here too. I lost 15
sheets of 2 inch thick Styrofoam insulation
board! Also a 4'X4' section of roof
shingles blew off. Luckily, I had enough
saved, that I used to replace them. I
wonder if it is because we have lost so
many trees from fires and disease?
 
(quoted from post at 10:48:09 06/16/20) I
wonder if it is because we have lost so
many trees from fires and disease?
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Hard to say but I know more trees sure helps break the wind. I was over at the "hundred acre woods" yesterday checking bins and you'd hardly know the wind was blowing there. We have lost most of the natural tree and bush cover in this country due to farming.
DR Sportster, that is not a white birch. We call them poplars but I think the actual name is the Trembling Aspen. Its the most common tree that grows here.
 
(quoted from post at 09:27:19 06/17/20) That looks nothing like what is called a poplar in New Jersey.
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That's what I thought too, looked like an aspen. But I think it's a white poplar.
 
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