We are the windiest city in America, but today is ridiculous.

[BBR]

83 mph gusts and brown skies.

I think we're gonna blow away.

[studemax]

50MPH gusts here in Kansas. About an hour ago I was almost blown over backwards coming out of the Tag Office. Red Oklahoma dirt is making it quite hazy outside.

[BBR]

I saw reports of 93 & 101 from towns a little North of Amarillo.

[DanStokes]

And folks talk bad about our hurricanes!

[SuperBuickGuy]

ahem, we had a 89.5 mph gust today. Had something similar last week. our trees grow bent....

[studemax]

Same here in Kansas. All the trees lean north, even when the winds are calm.

[cstmwgn]

Our trees are lazy - they just lay down when the wind blows!

[dave.g.in.gansevoort]

So do all of you use logging chain for wind socks? The wind isn’t really blowing until the chain is out straight horizontal?

[studemax]

The state name of Kansas is a Kaw word that literally means "People of the South Wind". It blows nearly all the time. In fact, we tend to notice when it's NOT blowing. A cooling breeze is appreciated most of the year, and it's not even considered windy until it's slicing along over 25 MPH. A pal of mine moved down from Minneapolis in the 80's, and his wife asked me, "Does the wind ever stop blowing here in Kansas?". My reply was "What wind?". When he moved back to Minneapolis over a decade later he told me the thing he missed most about Kansas was the wind.

Back me up, Ed.

[BBR]

There's dirt everywhere. We have unitized mailboxes and my mail was completed covered in dirt. Looked like it had been in there for 100 years.

Lost a few shingles off the house and there was dirt drifted up on my front porch.

Had a 50 car pile up on I-27 just South of here. Saw some video and I think there was one fatality but it's a miracle more people were not killed. There were some seriously mashed cars out there.

[SuperBuickGuy]

we don't have dirt left to blow.

The only dirt that's blowing is the radioactive stuff on the Hanford Reservation. Fur us. We live at the end of a 200 mile valley called the Columbia River Gorge. Whenever the pressure changes, we have wind. In fact, our winds are famous and if you like windsurfing, the number of days that do not have surfable winds is in the low single digits per year. The 'best' part of it is the river flows west, and the wind usually blows east. Why is that important? well, if you're learning to sail - and you fall into the river, its normal speed is 7 mph so you will, eventually flow over a dam. But the wind... goes the opposite direction - so if you can manage to stand up - you'll get blow back up river.... so that's the tunnel portion, we are at the end of that.... In the 3 years we've lived here, the wind hasn't blown any direction but from the west. Add to this, the gap behind our house is in line with the Columbia River gorge. All our trees bend east.

You know, though, the only time I complain about it is when the wind isn't blowing and Canada is burning.... don't know why Canada does their brush burns in August but for 1/2 of August and most of September - we have a nice campfire smell... thx Canada.

[studemax]

I don't wish to be morbid but I just found out 8 people died yesterday in a pileup on I-70 during the dust storm out in western Kansas.

[oletrux4evr]

The state name of Kansas is a Kaw word that literally means "People of the South Wind". It blows nearly all the time. In fact, we tend to notice when it's NOT blowing. A cooling breeze is appreciated most of the year, and it's not even considered windy until it's slicing along over 25 MPH. A pal of mine moved down from Minneapolis in the 80's, and his wife asked me, "Does the wind ever stop blowing here in Kansas?". My reply was "What wind?". When he moved back to Minneapolis over a decade later he told me the thing he missed most about Kansas was the wind.

Back me up, Ed.

All true. That I-70 crash happened out in northwest Kansas where it's flat as a pancake and involved 71 vehicles. People don't seem to understand you should slow down or stop when visibility drops from 20 miles to 100 yards, or zero. RIP to those who perished.

[SuperBuickGuy]

hardly noticed the 50 mph gusts we're having today....

[2020 mustang]

All true. That I-70 crash happened out in northwest Kansas where it's flat as a pancake and involved 71 vehicles. People don't seem to understand you should slow down or stop when visibility drops from 20 miles to 100 yards, or zero. RIP to those who perished.

I watch in amazement those dot highway cams and dash cam videos . Were they are piling up and people park on the road . I'd rather risk needing to be towed out of the thick brush,grass,ditch than stop in harms way when they just keep on running into the stopped traffic at 45 to 65 mph. Unless there are guard rails on both sides I'm driving as far off the asphalt as I can.