High Wind Warning

[Pam]

Hang on to your hats, high wind warning until tonight.

http://www.clickondetroit.com/weathe...onday/29896966

It's already getting loud in my area.

[gazhekwe]

Branches from my beloved trees are hitting my roof, makes me feel like my friends have turned on me. So far, no big ones, crossing my fingers.

[Danny]

Let Nature blow our city out!

[mtburb]

Already saw a branch fall in Southgate.

[jiminnm]

Those numbers are far too normal here in NM. Yesterday, we had sustained winds of 25-30 mph, with gusts to 50 mph, all afternoon. It's slightly less today. We know we'll have a 1-3 days every year with sustained winds of 40-45 mph and gusts up to 60-65 mph.

[Honky Tonk]

Hang on to your hats, high wind warning until tonight.

http://www.clickondetroit.com/weathe...onday/29896966

It's already getting loud in my area.

Well that blows.

[Cliffy]

I saw some guy holding onto a pole today on Fort St.

[luckycar]

Our sign that has been stationary for 42 years just decided to spin.We don't know what's holding it up.We moved the cars out from under it,hope it doesn't launch!

[Honky Tonk]

Our sign that has been stationary for 42 years just decided to spin.We don't know what's holding it up.We moved the cars out from under it,hope it doesn't launch!

Gives a whole new meaning to "take it for a spin"....

[Dbest]

Gives a whole new meaning to "take it for a spin"....

Honk you are crackn me up!

[Ray1936]

I saw some guy holding onto a pole today on Fort St.

I saw that. The Pole's name was Casimer Kozlowski.

[Cincinnati_Kid]

People driving those toy cars, be fore warned. High wind reeks havoc on them.

[Hermod]

People driving those toy cars, be fore warned. High wind reeks havoc on them.

High winds wreak havoc on small cars.

[jackie5275]

I was in the New Center area earlier this afternoon. The wind was blowing so hard I thought I was going to get lifted in the air & blow away like Aunt Marge in Harry Potter 3.

[Bobl]

Not a good day to be on Lake Huron.

[gazhekwe]

I chased some attack shopping carts today and nearly launched myself, luckily I caught the cart in the nick of time.

[Brock7]

CBC says the Detroit River is flowing in the opposite direction.

[gazhekwe]

And vans with raised roofs, as I found out today. The faster you go to get home, the worse it is.

[Bobl]

Weather buoy 45008, east of Oscoda: Waves over 13 feet, wind gusts at 51 mph.

[Scottathew]

I can already hear people whining about DTE.

"Why doesn't DTE have enough resources to simultaneously repair hundreds of thousands of outages? Oh, that costs money and it would raise my bill? Well, I'm still mad because I don't have power. WHAAAA! WHAAA!"

[Lowell]

I can already hear people whining about DTE.

"Why doesn't DTE have enough resources to simultaneously repair hundreds of thousands of outages? Oh, that costs money and it would raise my bill? Well, I'm still mad because I don't have power. WHAAAA! WHAAA!"

It’s bad enough that nothing is ever done about my pet peeve. Like clockwork, when there is a moderate to severe storm, thousands of people in Michigan lose electricity for an extended period of time.

Mind you, they never lose telephone service, even if they still have a land line, and their natural gas is supplied. [[Although without electricity, the gas isn’t much help in keeping the furnace running.)

Those^ words are not WHAAAA! WHAAA! from DetroitYES. They are those of Keith Crain in his editorial of this week's Crain's Detroit Business.

He makes a good point. This did not use to happen to this extent. It now seems that whenever nature sneezes a hundred thousand households lose power.

Unfortunately Crain goes on to turn this into an argument for coal fired plants that has nothing to do with the failure of the delivery infrastructure.

[Gpwrangler]

It’s bad enough that nothing is ever done about my pet peeve. Like clockwork, when there is a moderate to severe storm, thousands of people in Michigan lose electricity for an extended period of time.

Mind you, they never lose telephone service, even if they still have a land line, and their natural gas is supplied. [[Although without electricity, the gas isn’t much help in keeping the furnace running.)

Those^ words are not WHAAAA! WHAAA! from DetroitYES. They are those of Keith Crain in his editorial of this week's Crain's Detroit Business.

He makes a good point. This did not use to happen to this extent. It now seems that whenever nature sneezes a hundred thousand households lose power.

Unfortunately Crain goes on to turn this into an argument for coal fired plants that has nothing to do with the failure of the delivery infrastructure.

Power has always gone out when storms cause trees and lines to fail. It's physics. Not all power lines can be on 100' poles. We don't need to double our rates to upgrade infrastructure. Just take reasonable precautions, have your house wired for a generator and keep it in good condition.

This is is nothing new.

[Lowell]

Power has always gone out when storms cause trees and lines to fail. It's physics. Not all power lines can be on 100' poles. We don't need to double our rates to upgrade infrastructure. Just take reasonable precautions, have your house wired for a generator and keep it in good condition.

Physics sure, but because lines are not cleared as regularly as they once were. The fact is that our rates are de facto raised when freezers full of food are lost, businesses and schools have to close and wages are lost, accidents even death occur when wires, street and traffic lighting goes down or when, as you suggest, someone gives up like I did after the big one in 2004 and pops $5K for a generator that runs off my underground natural gas line. But how many people are fortunate as i and can afford that?

[Gpwrangler]

Physics sure, but because lines are not cleared as regularly as they once were. The fact is that our rates are de facto raised when freezers full of food are lost, businesses and schools have to close and wages are lost, accidents even death occur when wires, street and traffic lighting goes down or when, as you suggest, someone gives up like I did after the big one in 2004 and pops $5K for a generator that runs off my underground natural gas line. But how many people are fortunate as i and can afford that?

you paid way too much. You can light your whole house for the cost of a big TV, cheaper if you buy used. It's a matter of priorities, not fortune. When the choice was a TV or a generator I bought the generator. I'd rather prepare than bitch about the grid.

[gazhekwe]

Our electrical infrastructure needs serious updating and maintenance. Trees are not trimmed as regularly as they were 20 years ago when we bought in this neighborhood of mature trees. There was a five year schedule back then. Now the trees are bigger and trimming is done less often. When we had a lengthy summer storm outage four years ago we had a man who came in from another state working on our pole. He said it was missing a crucial update and where he was from he never sees them like this any more.