STREWTH! Was it a windy weekend at your place too?

[nitpicker1]

From today's ODT...


$100,000 of damage to ski building



Severe winds battered the Remarkables Ski Area's new base building at the weekend, shattering dozens of windows and causing at least $100,000 worth of damage.

Gusts estimated at more than 200kmh on Saturday night also blew out windows in the old base building and damaged huts and snowmaking equipment, while wind-blown stones scoured vehicles in the car park.

One of the first people on the scene said the $23million facility - completed last June - resembled an "abandoned Martian city''.

Gerrard Liddell, of Dunedin, said he arrived on Sunday morning for a climbing trip with friends to an "unbelievable scene''.

Ski area manager Ross Lawrence said the damage was "pretty devastating''.

More than 30 double-glazed windows and doors in the building had been blown out, and shattered glass was dispersed through the top level.

"I knew it was windy that night but we didn't anticipate this.

"I'd call it a once-in-a-100-year wind. We've never experienced anything like it.''

Wind speeds were not recorded because of a power cut earlier on Saturday, but he estimated they were between 180kmh and 210kmh.

Repairs were likely to take weeks, and options for strengthening the windows and panes were being considered.

Read it at
  http://www.odt.co.nz/news/queenstown-lakes/369574/100000-damage-ski-building



Di

[Alicat]

One of my larger tomato plants became horizontal as did my massive passion fruit bush.

[guest49]

Was all quiet on the Western Front!

[nitpicker1]

We had one single big gust here, TGFT,


but I think I have never before seen clouds move so fast. 
                     

[Kiwithrottlejockey]

It was merely “business as usual” at Featherston as I passed through there in each direction on both days of the weekend.

Whenever I stop a train at Featherston railway station and the locomotive rocks from side-to-side, I know it is really blowing.

It was doing that during the weekend, but as I stated, that is normal at Featherston.

I can remember way back during the early days of the original Xtra News Community group hosted by MSN and run by Telecom NZ/Xtra when Captain Pugwash was living in Featherston and used to regularly post about the wind destroying his garden, toppling trees he had planted, etc.

[Calliope]

we live in a supposed "High Wind" area but things have been pretty quiet up our way