For at least the last 48 hours, we have had a consistent 20-25 mph wind banging the back of our house - which faces south. Behind us is a large-ish cornfield, which of course, being winter is flat, desolate land, and not any sort of barrier to wind. Oh, did I mention the gusts up to 40 mph?
I don’t mind cold - well cold above the pain level at least.
I don’t mind snow, except for the part where I get up at 3 AM on schooldays.
Rain doesn’t bother me, I rather like it in fact.
Heat? LOVE the heat.
But wind? Me and wind have never gotten along. I ran track and cross country in high school, which means half of every lap I ran was usually into the wind. And on a 3 mile course? Whole half miles at a time into the spring midwest winds. I ride my bike a lot. I always plan my ride so the first half is mostly IN to the wind, and come home with it on my back.
Wind blows off shingles. It makes my siding shiver. It blows the empty garbage cans over and sends them tumbling down the street, and leaves my neighbor’s pizza boxes into my yard.
If it’s cold, wind creates the inevitable “wind chill factor”.
If it rains, wind…well wind makes that suck too.
If it snows, you get snow drifts. Unexpected piles of deep snow on roads that have been otherwise cleaned off. It also makes it almost impossible to shovel (or snow blow) fresh snow away because wherever you put the snow it blows back at you because wind acts differently when it senses snow - it observes where you want the snow and reverses direction to whip it right back at you.
On those old navigational maps with the bearded old guy blowing the trade winds? That old guy is the devil. Because he makes wind.
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Ha! Get it, “makes wind”? I kill me.**
So yes, we have wind. I have another night of sleeping with my bedroom windows (remember, the ones facing south? The same south from which this wind comes?) making ghost noises. (Thank you Ambien)
Another night wondering if I’m going to see a mean lady on a bike with the dog in the basket fly past my window.
Accuweather says we have this wind at least through tomorrow night.
And the best part? (I mean “best” in a totally facetious manner)
The best part is that tonight it will keep raining, and the temperature will rapidly drop, creating… Anyone? Ice. It creates ice. Which will be on the roads in the morning just about the time we need to call off school or not. I suspect not, perhaps a delay, but if we cancel, and the ice is gone at 9 AM, everyone says we overreacted.
So, at 3 - 3:30 AM, I get up, check the weather, see if roads are FUBAR, and of they are, go take a ride to see just how FUBAR they are. Presumably, if I slide off the road and die, they might delay school.
Yeah, I hate the wind.
