R. John Lye wrote:
>
> At 08:41 AM 9/14/99 -0500, Jack W Drews wrote:
> >I think I'll go down to Florida and sit in my car with the top down -- it
> will
> >be my only chance to experience a 160 mph wind.....
>
> I've experienced a wind of that magnitude once - when I first moved to
> Boulder, CO, we got a Chinook wind that went off the scale of the NOAA
> weather station (150 mph anemometer) which was just up the street from
> the rental house that I was living in. It was quite impressive; the
> whole house shook until our front picture window blew in, which apparently
> relieved the pressure, then it wasn't quite so bad. The next morning, our
> front yard was littered with wood and shingles from other houses on the
> street whose roofs blew off. We were among the lucky ones with minimal
> damage. Its not something I'm looking foward to experiencing again any
> time soon.
>
> Best wishes for all our Florida friends,
>
> John Lye
>
> '59 TR-3A, '62 TR-4, '70 GT-6+
> email: rjl6n@virginia.edu
> homepage: http://avery.med.virginia.edu/~rjl6n/homepage.htm
Thanks for all the good wishes. We are riding it out. So far, so good
(9PM Tuesday). Bill Warner, Jacksonville
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