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Why do we bother
Jun. 20th, 2008 09:31 am After another hot (but not record-breaking) day here, dry as a bone, we had a bizarre windstorm last night.
I was sitting downstairs watching HGTV after Danny went to bed and started hearing weird noises from outside. Turns out, it had gone from a perfectly calm, dry, warm evening to a ferocious windstorm, with the humidity jumping from the teens to the 70s in just 30 minutes.
The weird noise I heard was the tarp on the pool flapping around like a sail on a great ship. VERY loud, neighbor-rousing, I'm sure. But that's okay, the wind was so strong that it finally blew it off the pool, even though it was anchored by four 20 pound weights on each corner. The wind picked up to 55mph, blowing all the floats in the pool down into the lower patio, all the chairs knocked over, the folded umbrella on the outdoor table knocked over (breaking the table), and a huge amount of debris into the water again. This is such a perfectly aggravating bother..I had just cleaned it all out from the solar cover that blew off in the relatively lighter winds the day before.
Plus, I had moved the lawn sprinkler to a new location by the pool to keep so much water sprinkling onto the tarp. Of course, the tarp blew onto it last night. When the timer came on at 8:15 this morning, the water came on, and the sprinkler was trapped under it. I bolted out of bed to check it and move everything.
Of course, what's to gripe about. We're not living along the Mississippi River where thousands of homes are lost from levee breaks. We're not in the midst of a huge firestorm which seem to burn down a big part of New Mexico's forests.
High winds are the Albuquerque form of severe weather...and I've never grown to be calm when we have them.
I was sitting downstairs watching HGTV after Danny went to bed and started hearing weird noises from outside. Turns out, it had gone from a perfectly calm, dry, warm evening to a ferocious windstorm, with the humidity jumping from the teens to the 70s in just 30 minutes.
The weird noise I heard was the tarp on the pool flapping around like a sail on a great ship. VERY loud, neighbor-rousing, I'm sure. But that's okay, the wind was so strong that it finally blew it off the pool, even though it was anchored by four 20 pound weights on each corner. The wind picked up to 55mph, blowing all the floats in the pool down into the lower patio, all the chairs knocked over, the folded umbrella on the outdoor table knocked over (breaking the table), and a huge amount of debris into the water again. This is such a perfectly aggravating bother..I had just cleaned it all out from the solar cover that blew off in the relatively lighter winds the day before.
Plus, I had moved the lawn sprinkler to a new location by the pool to keep so much water sprinkling onto the tarp. Of course, the tarp blew onto it last night. When the timer came on at 8:15 this morning, the water came on, and the sprinkler was trapped under it. I bolted out of bed to check it and move everything.
Of course, what's to gripe about. We're not living along the Mississippi River where thousands of homes are lost from levee breaks. We're not in the midst of a huge firestorm which seem to burn down a big part of New Mexico's forests.
High winds are the Albuquerque form of severe weather...and I've never grown to be calm when we have them.
