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Posted by emtypockets on March 08, 2005 at 04:46:12 from (199.185.225.178):
Just looking for your best saying as to how windy can it get where you live? I was on the cell the other day with a fellow from eastern states asking my mailing address, as we spoke the wind came up as usual a typical blasting southern Alberta clipper, and I made a comment that I may have to call back with a change of address as the wind here is known to blow people into Saskatchewan to repopulate the province, hold calves against the grainery until they starve to death... and he replied with a chuckle saying he heard tell of winds out west here where they are gauged with a logging chain bolted to a power pole and when the chain is straight out horizontal it tells you it is windy but when the end links start to blow off you know it is really windy. I never heard that one before and got a chuckle out of it. I said true, I have a wind gauge which is a rock tied by rope on a stick with chart on it starting with "when rock is wet... it is raining. It is labeled an "Official USA Weather Rock". The rest of the chart is to faded to read, does anyone else have one that can be read? I would like to know what the other measures are. Also, I got in mind that others may have similiar tales... what is yours? Would be fun to read... It is so windy that...
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