# Wind whoooooooooooooooooooooosh **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 12, 2000, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wind-whoooooooooooooooooooooosh/12703 "2000-01-12T13:37:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![techchick68](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ea5d25/32.png) [@techchick68](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/techchick68)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2000, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wind-whoooooooooooooooooooooosh/12703/1 "2000-01-12T13:37:00Z")
I don’t think this can be considered BBQ Pit material, but I am kinda here to pitch a complaint to the Wind Gods. Dear Wind Gods, I hate it when you have hurricane strong gusts in the middle of the winter in the middle of the nation. Granted, you are helping keep our usually 40 degree weather at a respectable 60 degrees, but must you gust so hard you wake me up at ungodly hours? Your Chinooks are annoying I tell you. I mean come on. I usually sleep like a rock, but waking me up at 4:50 am makes me a very cranky woman. This not becoming for a computer geek who’s got to deal with whiney people day in and day out. On top of that, I am forced to create a hairspray helmet so my long locks don’t get whipped around and tangled in knots. If you could take it down a notch oh Gods of Wind, I would appreciate it. I feel like I could rip the head off a bunny rabbit today, if your winds don’t do it first. Thank you for listening Wind Gods, please hear my pleas and let me be. techchick68 ---
**Author:** ![Athena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/35a633/32.png) [@Athena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Athena)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2000, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wind-whoooooooooooooooooooooosh/12703/2 "2000-01-12T15:49:00Z")
I sympathize. Longmont and Boulder have been incredibly hazy lately - all the dust in the air. I had my window open about an inch last night, and we ended up closing it because the wind blew right in, along with enough dust to put me and SO into a coughing fit. I don’t know why, but there’s something about waking up in the middle of the night with the wind howling that scares the shit out of me. Some sort of primal thing, I think… scary wind. It’s gonna get me. ---
**Author:** ![OldBroad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ed655f/32.png) [@OldBroad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldBroad)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2000, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wind-whoooooooooooooooooooooosh/12703/3 "2000-01-12T15:55:00Z")
We’re about 10 miles west of Boulder at about 7600ft. Living/dining room window wall faces west. We eat dinner watching the glass flex on these evenings. Lost shingles of the roof last winter but not so far this season. ---
**Author:** ![techchick68](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ea5d25/32.png) [@techchick68](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/techchick68)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2000, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wind-whoooooooooooooooooooooosh/12703/4 "2000-01-12T16:04:00Z")
Athena and OldBroad, For goodness sakes, my prayer worked \< giggle \> The wind is just a slight breeze now, but sheesh, it could been quiet at night and started later this morning. I am in Colorado Springs and it’s been blowing for days like up there, it racks my nerves. It woke me up and there is a part of the roof that squeaks when the wind is that bad. It happens to by just over my head when I sleep, makes me think the roof is going to get ripped off right there! ---
**Author:** ![renaissanceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@renaissanceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/renaissanceman)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2000, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wind-whoooooooooooooooooooooosh/12703/5 "2000-01-12T16:39:00Z")
Hey techchick, My Dad lives in CS, way up on the hill in a new development. He says you can’t use regular roofing shingles there. I think his are actually concrete. The winds are a result of the geographical features that come together in CS. Also why you guys get less snow than other parts of Colorado, or at least that’s how he explained it to me. ---
**Author:** ![Sealemon88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c68b51/32.png) [@Sealemon88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sealemon88)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2000, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wind-whoooooooooooooooooooooosh/12703/6 "2000-01-12T16:44:00Z")
I _like_ days. Of course, I’m a guy with short hair, but still. They’re fun! Ow! * * * You say “cheesy” like that’s a **BAD** thing. ---
**Author:** ![Sylence](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b19c9b/32.png) [@Sylence](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylence)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2000, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wind-whoooooooooooooooooooooosh/12703/7 "2000-01-12T16:52:00Z")
Boulder is the place that inspired the term “wind storm”. The canyons funnel wind down from the mountains and blast it out onto the plains. I used to live in Greeley, but I remember visiting friends in Boulder and having the wind shove me (6’4", 220 lbs) backwards when I got out of the car. – Sylence * * * I don’t have an evil side. Just a really, really apathetic one. ---
**Author:** ![Athena](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/35a633/32.png) [@Athena](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Athena)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2000, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wind-whoooooooooooooooooooooosh/12703/8 "2000-01-12T17:37:00Z")
Yes, I actually think that outdoor activity in the winter is more accessible in my home town, which gets an average of 240 inches of snow a year, but seldom gets windy. Boulder is nice and warm most of the year, but who cares when you can’t walk from your house to your car without getting blown halfway around the block? I’ll take snow over wind every day. ---
**Author:** ![techchick68](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ea5d25/32.png) [@techchick68](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/techchick68)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2000, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wind-whoooooooooooooooooooooosh/12703/9 "2000-01-13T00:48:00Z")
renaissanceman, Actually they are considered asphalt, with a tar mix if I am thinking correctly of what kind you are talking about. The building trades have to account for our wind gusts, the roofs and windows have to meet specific wind loads based on charts that have been developed over the years. (used to work selling windows and doors, my bro’s company that I work for is a construction company.) The Front Range doesn’t see as much snow as the mountains, but boy when it wants to dump, we get hammered. Plus, it can be snowing and 10 degrees one day and 60 degrees the next. We have weird winters, but one nice thing is, you can wearing shorts and playing golf (or frisbee) then the next day end up shoveling your driveway…but it seems as though we have had a mild winter so far. Our snowiest months are March and April so we still have a lot of season to go 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Konrad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f475e1/32.png) [@Konrad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Konrad)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2000, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wind-whoooooooooooooooooooooosh/12703/10 "2000-01-13T00:56:00Z")
I am the wind-god Pushor. Unfortunately I am only responsible for the wind over the seas. If you want a matter brought to the attention of the other wind gods you will have to fill out the appropriate paperwork in triplicate and send it to the proper authorities, where after 4-6 weeks, it will be promptly ignored. ---
**Author:** ![techchick68](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ea5d25/32.png) [@techchick68](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/techchick68)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2000, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wind-whoooooooooooooooooooooosh/12703/11 "2000-01-13T01:46:00Z")
Konrad, Will you accept sex (or money) so I can bribe you into getting the rest of the wind gods to lighten up a bit? (always wondered what it would be like to bribe someone, somehow it’s oddly erotic) hehe ---
**Author:** ![John\_Corrado](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a88e4f/32.png) [@John\_Corrado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Corrado)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2000, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wind-whoooooooooooooooooooooosh/12703/12 "2000-01-13T01:50:00Z")
Wait! Wait! I’m the Wind god! _I’m_ the Wind God! Dammit. ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2000, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wind-whoooooooooooooooooooooosh/12703/13 "2000-01-13T02:01:00Z")
So, would this be the inverse of a blow job, if you want the wind to stop? I was very amused by the OP because I woke up at 4:30 AM this morning here on the New England coast with the wind howling around the eaves. 140 year old Colonial houses are not, apparently, very aerodynamic. ---
**Author:** ![Rich\_Hall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ebca7d/32.png) [@Rich\_Hall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rich_Hall)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2000, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wind-whoooooooooooooooooooooosh/12703/14 "2000-01-13T02:19:00Z")
Wind jobs, blow jobs, is that all you folks ever think? Now if I…