Baymule’s Journal

[farmerjan]

We had one of the Derecho 's about 10+ years ago here.. lost power for nearly 5 days... not near as long a stretch... just tore things down with the winds...
Had on the news that one older man, was killed when a part of a crane fell on the concrete truck he was driving, delivering concrete to a site or something... SO SAD for all the devastation...

 

[Weldman]

We had one of the Derecho 's about 10+ years ago here.. lost power for nearly 5 days... not near as long a stretch... just tore things down with the winds...
Had on the news that one older man, was killed when a part of a crane fell on the concrete truck he was driving, delivering concrete to a site or something... SO SAD for all the devastation...

Derecho you say, I was in an excavator when one hit. I made sure to flip the excavator around and anchor down. I can feel it rock the excavator. I thought the field was on fire when it first started.

 

[farmerjan]

Looks like quite the wind... so explain to me why the wind turbines were not turning at all????

 

[Weldman]

Looks like quite the wind... so explain to me why the wind turbines were not turning at all????

Not in operation yet so the brakes were on. I was tasked with burying the junctions of where the wires met that connected tower to tower. I got hired on towards the end of the contract and they canned me for not being fast enough within a week working there. Never again.