I HATE WIND....

[farmaholic]

Seven 3500 bu and one 5000 bu Behlen bins caved in. Two 3500 bu(anchored) and one 5000 bu Behlen bins blew over. Old 10x70 Brandt auger(completely lowered) hitched to a tractor and 10X40 Sakundiak bin unloading auger blew over. A 30 foot pulltype swather(still used to swath some cereals) is upside down in the field about 100 feet from where it was standing. Had to re-adjust my internet dish so I could get service, was about 90 degrees off target. Had about seven tenths of rain that came sideways and was almost a white-out at one point, I wonder what the gauge didn't catch. No hail but the crops are looking a little beat up. God I hate wind!!!

[farmaholic]

Another interesting find and more amusing, wind sucked the water out of the toilet bowls, just a wee(pardon the pun) bit in the bottom of the bowls. God I hate wind!!!

[sumdumguy]

Farm, that must have been so scarey. Did you
have treees Around the farm? Do you think they
helped? Where are you at?

[ColevilleH2S]

Iooks like a scene from a gulf hurricane out my
window this morning. All the trees are leaning
sideways and the rain is in sheets. All I need to
complete it, is a reporter in a rain slicker standing
infront of a camera trying to do a weather piece.

[mcfarms]

Plow wind likely do you think? Sorry to hear about the damage. Sure wet here in southern Ab this morning close to 2 inches over night and sitting at 220 mms since April.
Think its a shop day in one form or another.

[furrowtickler]

This covered a huge area. Stories coming in from
all over similar to yours farma. My place hit hard
as well, but so is every farm all over. Twister
brushed side of my house leveled everything on
the west side of my yard. Everybody ok but one of
the scariest hours in my life. Spent the morning
replacing nieghbor roof on house and garage. A
couple in their 70's. Got it all done before rain
yesterday . There is 35 steel structures twisted
and down just 6 miles east. The main power feed
for meadow lake and far north. Way too many
stories to explain - unbelievable nobody killed.

[cottonpicken]

I'm pretty impressed with those storm chasers
forecast,enviro canada had us sunny and sweet until
we got hit.

[bucket]

A west wind at 40 - 50 kmh and rain on the way.

That goes counter to historic weather.

The kindersley and rosetown areas look like they are getting pounded again wednesday morning.

[tstep]

winds are goin be 70--90. holy shit. i hhaattee the wind.

[sumdumguy]

Farmaholic, did the anchors pull out of the
ground?

[SASKFARMER3]

And with all the wind our expert farmers
Broadass were out spraying all day!

[ColevilleH2S]

Spraying? BS. What kind of wind speeds are we
talking about?

[farmaholic]

Sumdum: No trees to speak of as a shelterbelt around the yard. Spoke of that in a previous thread, I don't know if it would have helped much anyway and besides the bins take up alot of space. As I mentioned before this family spent more time clearing trees than planting them, unfortunately!! Yes these bins (except the 5000 bu) were anchored and it pulled them out of the ground. I can see the ones that didn't tip, but caved in, did move afew inches. Is the fact that they didn't tip any better than them being buckled? I am in SE Sask, not too far from Regina.

[farmaholic]

Sask: if Broad was out spraying today something is wrong, winds were nuts today--sustained heavy wind here. I can't imagine.

[riders2010]

For curiosity sakes what wind speed max do you spray for example if you have wheat to spray and the neighbor has canola right next? I'd rather my crop be too late and weedy before I spray with wind blowing at the neighbor's susceptible crop. Guys are getting nuts around here wind blowing on the neighbor canola and peas and spraying wheat yet the other 3 sides of the field have wheat or barley, go spray another field till the wind changes. But more and more the qualities of what farmers were is being lost. All about selfishness and lawsuits. Yet the guy wanting damages is deemed the asshole.