Cruces newcomers - Sick of the wind yet? (Clovis: school, tornadoes)

[WasSoggyInSeattle]

Clairz,
I was in tears from your post. My parents & grandparents live south of Portales and everytime I call I get a wind report (we made the mistake of buying my dad a weather station). And they pretty much describe what you did. Only their story is cows blowing over, tumbleweeds stacking 20 ft high along the fences.. they blame in on the wind charges that went up at Elida a few years back. Saying "wish they'd turn those durn things off - we are about to blow away out here!".

[tecpatl]

Originally Posted by mike0421

Am I sick of the WIND? In a word, no. I come from this:


Day after dreadful cold gray sky day, 4 months out of the year. The wind? I'll take this every day the rest of the year if it means not having to shovel snow.

Great pic mike! Kinda does all the 'splaining for ya!
Last week on one of those super windy days I had the pleasure(?) of going over to Juarez to do some business. Now THAT was ugly....not only the usual dust, but I think of all those stray dogs and the souvenirs they leave on dirt streets..and where that dust ends up. ewwww...

[anomoly]

Originally Posted by clairz

Gosh, I just read about you poor guys with a couple of weeks of wind to endure and the tears are still streaming down my windburned cheeks. Tears of laughter. Tears because one of our 60 mph gusts whisked my cat up into the top of the neighbor's tree last week. Can't use a ladder, those all blew away. The current plan is to wait until the wind shifts and hope she lands back in one of our trees this time.

Don't like your dog? Put him out back in the yard and he'll just blow away and find a new home. Don't like your husband? Wait for one of the really big gusts...

~clairz

No way!!!
You made my day, and ...made me laugh, as requested!

And, here in TrC, I don't think it's windier than previous years, although last year I was in Bullhead City, AZ, and the year before in Safford, AZ.
Spring is just plain windy in the desert, and I hate it!! But, wouldn't trade it for snow or rain....

[tnp]

I'll take that kind of wind any day, over what we get here in the south/southeast. We get winds of the tornado kind and serious straight line winds that do just about as much damage. In the past couple of months in 3 separate storms I've my roof torn off, my gutters literally snapped in half, my siding blown off, window damage, and foundation damage. At one point I was thinking, "Geez, just blow the whole darn house down and get it over with already!" At least that way I could rebuild with only one insurance deductible instead of doing it piecemeal like this with a deductible for every storm. Seems like just when I get the repairs of one storm done, the next one comes around and I have to start all over again. We used to have one tornado season, in the spring. The past couple of years we've have what they call a "secondary" tornado season, in the winter. Every year seems to get worse.

This is one of the many reasons I'm looking to move to NM or AZ. I will be sooooo glad to get out of tornado alley!

[TKO]

It's coming again today and tomorrow.

I'll admit, in the grand scheme of things it's not as bad as many other weather phenomenas in many other places but it does suck and I'm not falling in line with the Pollyanna view... in a friendly tongue in cheek kinda way!

Dammit, it's our claim to unpleasant weather and without it we'd be too perfect.

Here's what I found about it - It's going to wreck our fishing holes. And I'm tired of dusting.

Neuroscience: Targeting psychosis

"Changes in human settlement and livestock grazing in the western United States over the last 200 years have resulted in a 500% increase in the amount of dust in the atmosphere, according to a study published online this week in Nature Geoscience. The increased dust deposition has resulted in a more than fivefold increase in nutrient and mineral input to a lake in the San Juan Mountains, with important implications for alpine lake chemistry and ecology.

Jason Neff and colleagues used lake sediments to estimate the amount of dust blown into the lake over the last 5,000 years. They found a dramatic rise in the number of dust particles in the sediments that coincides with the westward expansion of human settlements in the nineteenth century. Twentieth century increases in livestock patterns also brought about dustier conditions relative to the baseline measurements."

[nancy thereader]

Where was that photo taken, mike ? Just so'es I know where NOT to go). I am planning to move to New Mexico when I retire this comng summer. I am looking for a place with sun and skies and mountains. Wouold Las Cruces be a good choice for me?

[malamute]

Originally Posted by nancy thereader

Where was that photo taken, mike ? Just so'es I know where NOT to go). I am planning to move to New Mexico when I retire this comng summer. I am looking for a place with sun and skies and mountains. Wouold Las Cruces be a good choice for me?

Yes. Las Cruces is kind of a retirement area, and loads of sun and big skies, and beautiful mountains.

[mike0421]

Originally Posted by nancy thereader

Where was that photo taken, mike ? Just so'es I know where NOT to go). I am planning to move to New Mexico when I retire this comng summer. I am looking for a place with sun and skies and mountains. Wouold Las Cruces be a good choice for me?

It was taken in Oswego NY, a little north of Syracuse. You have no idea the misery that must be endured living here. My mom's entire family comes from this region. Only half of them have moved away, the rest remain.

[gnubler]

The wind has been a bit brutal, that's for sure. This is my first spring in Cruces, and even after having lived in southern AZ for 8 years I've yet to see windstorms like this! Really, things could be much worse because at least it's warm and sunny every day. Good to hear that this is a fluke year and windier than average.

Things in my backyard have been flying everywhere and unfortunately I've learned the hard way that if something from your yard flies into a neighboring yard, go retrieve it immediately. I have a big plastic storage tub in my backyard with a lid that went airborne and landed next door - told myself I'd deal with it the next day. One day was too late as the precious youngster living next door decided to jump on it, hard, and cracked it into oblivion. A small teddy bear belonging to this youngster has made its way into my yard - I'm thinking of puncturing it with sticks, setting it on fire, and throwing it back over the fence.

[GregW]

Oswego, NY. Anywhere near the Tug Hill Plateau? I grew up near Albany, NY and I remember that kind of snowfall.

I'll think about a wind turbine and some kind of long term energy storage for when I move to Socorro.