big blow

From: Ken Poulton (poulton@zonker.hpl.hp.com-DeleteThis)
Date: Tue Dec 12 1995 - 10:31:16 PST


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From: Ken Poulton <poulton@zonker.hpl.hp.com-DeleteThis>
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Subject: big blow

SFO had some wind last night:

95/12/11-2050 SFO 60 58 200 20 33 . 29.72 8 sct m24 ovc 4r /
95/12/11-2150 SFO 61 57 200 30 48 . 29.7 8 sct m23 bkn 41 ovc 4r
95/12/11-2255 SFO 61 51 210 37 48 . 29.68 8 sct m23 bkn 40 ovc 4r-
95/12/11-2354 SFO 61 57 210 38 53 . 29.66 8 sct m21 bkn 40 bkn 8r-
95/12/11-0055 SFO 61 58 220 42 52 . 29.63 m17 bkn 35 ovc 6r- / 8/
95/12/12-0155 SFO 63 58 220 42 53 . 29.6 17 sct m30 bkn 40 ovc 10
95/12/12-0253 SFO 62 58 210 43 61 . 29.58 4 sct m19v bkn 42 ovc 8r
95/12/12-0356 SFO 62 58 220 47 53 . 29.57 7 sct m23 bkn 42 ovc 9r-
95/12/12-0454 SFO 63 59 210 43 55 . 29.54 10 sct m33 ovc 9r- / pk
95/12/12-0555 SFO 62 59 210 36 52 . 29.5 -x m24 ovc 2tr /r3 tb44
95/12/12-0750 SFO 60 56 210 38 44 7 29.56 20 sct m31 ovc 45 bkn 75
95/12/12-0852 SFO 60 58 230 34 47 . 29.62 17 sct m21 bkn 30 bkn 47
95/12/12-0955 SFO 62 58 230 30 42 . 29.62 15 sct m21 bkn 29 ovc 5h

Listening to the wind about 1:30 last night, my wife Kate said she was
nervous about the oak tree in our back yard (next to the boys' bedroom).
I grumbled a bit, but we moved the boys to the living room.

I went to sleep. About 2:30 she pokes me, "Did you hear that?". Well
I hadn't, but the branch pointing away from the house had snapped, swung
on its cable back towards the trunk, bounced on the roof of the garage
and landed in the yard 3 feet from the house.

We went and joined the boys in the living room.

Ken Poulton
poulton@opus.hpl.hp.com-DeleteThis

"Windsurfing is like comedy: timing is everything."
                                        -- Ken Poulton



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