winds have been high here in missouri too, we have had two brief drops in
power here at my house, winds gusting to 33mph
At 03:33 AM 1/11/00 -0000, you wrote:
>Well hello, the power finally came back on at 9:15pm here at CASI HQ,
>after being knocked off at approx. 6:30pm, purportedly due to wind.
>
>The highest wind gust I recorded today was the 31mph I mentioned earlier
>at 11:18am. Of course that doesn't count when the power was out, but
>does count 7:00-9:15pm when I had the WMR-918 station running on battery
>power, it recorded a max of 26mph.
>
>The High Wind Warning was cancelled at about 4pm, saying that winds
>would only be 15-20mph possibly gusting to 40mph, and immediately
>afterwards the Altoona airport reported a 27mph sustained wind and gust
>to 44mph. Then interestingly enough the power outage happened (and I
>heard 2nd hand stories of other outages in the area from truckers on the
>CB at 7pm).
>
>Even *more* interesting is that this power outage appeared to eminate
>from the SAME area where I recorded the transformer explosion on
>videotape during the last windstorm in late 1999. Must be a weak line.
>I will investigate the area this weekend.
>
>Pressure fell to 29.20" this afternoon and is rising again now.
>
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Glen Briggs
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