# It's extraordinarly windy **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 5, 2005, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-extraordinarly-windy/297755 "2005-04-05T01:13:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![NinjaChick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@NinjaChick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinjaChick)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2005, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-extraordinarly-windy/297755/1 "2005-04-05T01:13:10Z")
Truly mundane and pointless. I just had to give in and close my window, because the wind blew a poster off the wall. Which was held up with both masking tape _and_ sticky-tak. :eek: _hides from scary wind_ ---
**Author:** ![Scott\_Plaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Scott\_Plaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scott_Plaid)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2005, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-extraordinarly-windy/297755/2 "2005-04-05T02:19:30Z")
::Scott flies past:: It was so windy this afternoon in Maryland, I’ve been caried here. (Just a joke, and a funny mental image, Scott’s still in MD.) ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2005, 2:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-extraordinarly-windy/297755/3 "2005-04-05T02:36:39Z")
Nah, that’s normal for spring in New Mexico. Enjoy. ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Eyed\_Stranger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/919ad9/32.png) [@Green\_Eyed\_Stranger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Eyed_Stranger)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2005, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-extraordinarly-windy/297755/4 "2005-04-05T02:37:43Z")
Yeah, we get that here in Kansas too. We call it spring. It doesn’t get _extraordinarly_ windy unless there’s a tornado 🙂 Take care, GES ---
**Author:** ![GrizzRich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7ba0ec/32.png) [@GrizzRich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrizzRich)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2005, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-extraordinarly-windy/297755/5 "2005-04-05T04:05:52Z")
Damn… That blows! :d&r: . . . . Aw, come on… SOMEbody was gonna make that joke. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2005, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-extraordinarly-windy/297755/6 "2005-04-05T04:08:29Z")
> [@Green Eyed Stranger](#): > > It doesn’t get _extraordinarly_ windy unless there’s a tornado 🙂 > > GES Amatuers! :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2005, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-extraordinarly-windy/297755/7 "2005-04-05T04:18:02Z")
Yeah, it’s been pretty wendy here in Dallas too. Try riding a motorcycle in this crap. The other day I practicaly had to ride my bike at a 45 degree angle (towards the wind) just to be able to drive in a strainght line. ---
**Author:** ![1010011010](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/ea666f/32.png) [@1010011010](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/1010011010)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2005, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-extraordinarly-windy/297755/8 "2005-04-05T04:51:09Z")
Sounds like skirt weather to me… [thinks fondly of Marilyn Monroe] ---
**Author:** ![KRC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/45deac/32.png) [@KRC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KRC)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2005, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-extraordinarly-windy/297755/9 "2005-04-05T11:48:01Z")
It’s dust exchange season. Arizona gets California’s dust, New Mexico gets Arizona’s dust, and West Texas gets New Mexico’s dust. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2005, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-extraordinarly-windy/297755/10 "2005-04-05T19:43:17Z")
And Toronto gives everybody their cold winter air and snow. Neener neener! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![My\_Darn\_Snake\_Legs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f14d63/32.png) [@My\_Darn\_Snake\_Legs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/My_Darn_Snake_Legs)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2005, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-extraordinarly-windy/297755/11 "2005-04-05T21:02:54Z")
Well, we had 40mph winds here the other day and that’s quite enough for me. It’s hard to walk into that kind of wind. It’s _really_ hard to walk into that kind of wind in flip-flops. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2005, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-extraordinarly-windy/297755/12 "2005-04-05T21:37:33Z")
Welcome to Lubbock, Texas. The land here is so flat, you can see the earth curve. Such flatness means we have no natural barriers to wind. As a result, dust and wind are the norm. Today is the second day in just about a week that we’ve had winds over 50 miles per hour. One of our neighbor’s trees snapped in half; luckily, the trees we just planted three weeks ago seem to be doing okay. So, we got wind. I suppose there is a plus side, though: we never have air quality warnings. The wind just gets rid of everything, so pollution doesn’t get a chance to hang around. So that’s nice, I guess. ---
**Author:** ![Caprese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9a28c/32.png) [@Caprese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caprese)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2005, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-extraordinarly-windy/297755/13 "2005-04-06T02:22:09Z")
It was very windy here today. It’s still 28 mph right now. I like to think that spring is blowing in. ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2005, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-extraordinarly-windy/297755/14 "2005-04-06T02:50:07Z")
Denver. Check. Extremely windy. I saw a glass beer mug blowing down the street at about 30 mph, heading south. Okay, maybe it was plastic. It was so windy that when my cat came in from outside, he fell over! ---
**Author:** ![monica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a183cd/32.png) [@monica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monica)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2005, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-extraordinarly-windy/297755/15 "2005-04-06T03:17:49Z")
My little 12 pound dog loves that weather. I can’t imagine why, as she looks like she’s about to be blown over.