Wind

[mbarrick]

Wow. I've just been awakened by the wind. There is quite the gale blowing out right now. There is a rumble to it like a freight train going by in the distance. I can hear things snapping and falling over at the nearby construction sites. The three construction cranes are twisting in it and I can see the strings of Christmas lights on them flapping. The cat door is flapping. The little shrubberies in the townhouse gardens across the alley that never move in the wind are flapping around.

According to Environment Canada the winds right now are in the neighbourhood of 100 Km/hr (60 mph).

EDIT 4:10 a.m.: Now there is lightning on the mountains.

Comments

[van-champion.livejournal.com]

We had hail in Richmond. At least, it sounded like hailstones against my window... One of the few times the weather has kept me from sleeping. More coffee, please.

[seymour-glass.livejournal.com]

yeh i woke up just after 2:30 am and the wind was just howling...it was coming in hard...i can hear it at night sometimes but this wind had a decidedly different sound...and the rain was coming down hard as well at that time...

[neverletmedown.livejournal.com]

It woke me up as well. What's worse is that our apartment complex as a flaw with the design of the door jam. That it, it whistles. It whistles like a freight train barging down the mountain. If anybody on our floor leaves a window open only by a crack, the entire hallway whistles like a haunted house.

Needless to say, I was woken up as well.

[neverletmedown.livejournal.com]

"as a flaw" should read "has a flaw"