What's Blowin' in the Wind?

The answer is...
Couches.
Yep, couches.




This upside down couch leaning against the fence used to sit next to a building 60 ft away on the OTHER side of the railroad tracks (where I am).

 

And 18-wheeler trailers, dirt, and anything else light enough to blow to the next county in 70 mph winds.



Yep, 70+ mph winds...  see, I wasn't kidding!




Now for the tractor trailer wrecks...  this 5 mile stretch of interstate can look like a trailer graveyard.  We passed 4 trailers blown off the road within 5 miles today. 



That's a refridgerated semi trailer dead center in the picture (and in the interstate median).  The windsock is at it's normal condition....  straight out. 


There were all kinds of flashing lights around this one as we drove past... the towing folks are earning their paychecks today.
 


This guy's trailer went off the side of the road and took out the guard rail too.


This last trailer picture is double trouble...  a semi trailer on the right and an enclosed pickup trailer on the left (the bent reflector post points to it nicely).  I think we saw this pickup headed in the opposite direction on our way down...  we both commented that we hoped he had plenty of weight in his trailer.  Guess not.

And just to show you where Nebraska gets all its fine soil....




Kinda makes the Dust Bowl a little more real.

  I didn't think too much about wind till I moved to this part of the country...  other than the odd tornado or hurricane, the worst we got where I grew up was a 30-mph thunderstorm.

Things are different here... here's what 30 - 40 mph winds do after we've had a few inches of snow:



Can you find the road?



Nature's art



Locally know as a whiteout...  and this one is not too bad.




Looking over the rim.



Dunno about findin' "answers" in the wind, but keep a firm hand on your hat and your pickup door till it quiets down out there!