High winds blew down a section of my fence night before last, and it was braced with buttresses, too. Still blowing hard today—my second-least favorite thing about Colorado (first is the permanent drought).
Last summer it was mega drought here, now I’m flooded.
In 3 months it will be drought again.
The good news is 4 purple Iris popped up yesterday, the bad news is the storm knocked 3 of them down LoL
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Just imagine what you'd experience if you were to move to the Louisville/Broomfield area (up around Rocky Flats).
No big difference in annual lack of precipitation....you are, after all, smack in the middle of what could reasonably be called The Great American Desert, but the wind out "on The Flats" can get plumb wicked.
Standing joke in the area refers to a Rocky Flats Windgage, which is a ten-foot length of logging chain suspended from a stout pole set in the ground.
If the chain is vertical, there's no wind.
When it's horizontal, there's a little bit of a breeze.
When chain, pole and all are gone, the wind's just starting to blow hard.
(Yeah, I used to live there. Lost count of the number of fences I had to replace as well as the times that I had to replant seedling pines that that **** wind had blown completely out of the ground.....and it ain't much better in some places in Montana.)