Amazing video, but that guy is nuts, this is EIA. Wide-angle or not, he was flying between treetops with just a few feet of error. You could see there wasn't any wind, but man, one bad gust and he's George of the Jungle.

DIS-FUCKING-GUSTING!

Charity being outlawed is just.... what a bunch of little pieces of shit, the assholes... tremendous assholes, horrible human beings, who not only proposed, but voted for something like this to become law.

I was in this little windstorm. I think my area got a quick burst of wind up in the 90mph range (West Valley City), as we had some extremely heavy things that got moved around--it only lasted about 2-4 seconds. It also made the house vibrate, so I know it wasn't in the 70'ish range...it was higher. Then the rest of the gusts were around 60-70.

BTW, if anyone was wondering, this little windstorm happened along the Wasatch Front--Salt Lake City. Nasty little wind storm, it sure killed a lot of trees, fences, etc...

Did that guy say "cut the strings"? Doesn't exactly seem like a good solution to me to let that thing loose while mostly inflated.

Also, I wouldn't want to step onto a giant mostly-inflated balloon. One giant gust and you go for a ride.

When a person warned that the men should remove the video before they go to jail, Hall fired back.

"Nobody’s going to jail," he wrote. You have a 2,000 lb boulder that is teetering on a 2"[sic] dirt ledge and about ready to fall off on it’s [sic] own. 5 minutes before this video we watched a family with many small children walk right below the rock to take a family photo. We didn’t do anything until they were gone because we didn’t want anyone to get hurt. One gust of wind and that rock was falling whether someone was there or not. ...

"I’ll take my chances with the cops rather then my conscience after hearing a family was crushed to death by a rock I was prompted to move."

Swalberg said just because a rock looks loose, it doesn’t mean people should knock it over.

Oh, jood jod, it's "JIF"! It always has been "JIF"! It always will be "JIF"! Jetting all anjry and calling the coiner names because you and shitloads of other people have been pronouncing it INCORRECTLY all these years is gust as joddamn silly as... jetting all anjry because you've been pronouncing it incorrectly all these years. Jee whiz!

@ant - "yewtoob"

GUST OF WIND splat

"No Pasaran!!"...What's tall 'an heavy in that sucker anyhoo?? Gusts of 40-70kph, no passaaan!

Tuesday morning 7am in Ohio right now. The house has power and I hope not much is damaged. When I was taking my dog out around 9pm last night, I noticed that one gutter drain pipe had totally come down. If that's all the damage to the house, I am not complaining. The wind was crazy throughout the night, and it is coming from the north, which normally never happens. Right now looks like we are having teeny flakes of snow instead of rain. But the ground temp is around 34F, so it is not accumulating. I'll check outside the house once it gets lighter. Wind gusts are still somewhere around 50mph

Ohio was not hit hard, at least not where I live - so far. Local paper has a list of what is happening, state by state: http://www.10tv.com/content/stories/2012/10/30/national-state-by-state-damage.html

I hope everybody and their loved ones are safe.

I don't feel like posting silly videos today. I am just grateful that everything is fine right where I live.

Yes, the penguins were in almost as much danger from that wave as a bird might be from a gust of wind. Truly terrifying.

@shinyblurry

I will not get engaged into a scientific debate about what is or isn't correct via Creationism or other ad hoc sciences, all based on religion FIRST and foremost. I will listen to actual science. Everything I have ever seen from your side (as I do see you in other comment threads, though I may not post) is against what the standard is in science. I put NO CREDIT behind anything that has absolutely no discussion from the scientific field. The argument is happening merely at the point that religion hits a functioning system in education or experiment.

My arguments come directly from college texts, teachers, and other approved scientific texts. If you want to understand my side, read them. I surely will not repeat what I learned by reading, studying, and experimenting. There are those out there that are willing to have long conversations on the topic, but that is not me.

May I also add whether you meant it to be a slight towards me (as I see it) or a general stance; if you believe that you truly are "higher" and see farther than Einstein, "The Shoulders of Giants", I would rethink that stance. That is what I meant if you took it any other way...

Quick edit- I will reply to the Robert Jastrow quote though. I would put ALL wagers off the table until science is fully done investigating this Universe, you may become very surprised at what you find. @shinyblurry , if you wish to know more about this phenomena look back in my blog entries at "From Nothing Comes Something (recent experiment)", I have a few added links dealing with this Quantum Mechanics subject and of course an article about a very intriguing experiment done. Watch this and this physicist may surprise you with something:

Secondary edit- I wanted to answer your question above about my feeling that I had a spiritual connection with God. I have to say that you have a great hatred towards Mormons. I've known them my whole life and I can reassuringly tell you that many of them are the nicest people that you would possibly meet. When there are disasters in areas around the country there is always a sense of community that is restored and people come together and help. When this happens in Salt Lake or the surrounding metropolitan area the community support is ridiculous. I had a tree get blown down in the little windstorm last week (Utah and California got hit, it was sustained 40-75 mph winds with gusts anywhere from 60-100 mph; I think we got maybe an 80 mph gust that took it out). The windstorm didn't end till about noonish, but I was just getting my chainsaw ready when I had about 14 people show up to help with my one tree. They brought their chainsaws and even had an industrial wood-chipper with them. We took down a 40 ft. tree in one hour. But, this sort of thing is the NORM. So just remember this, while I know Mormonism is very wrong in many ways, including the book of Mormon being incredibly wrong in so many ways (where are these HUGE bronze-age and some STEEL!-age remnants for archaeologists to look at and discover--I read the book of Mormon atleast twice and I can tell you that these civilizations were huge; HUGE compared to small archaeological finds. These were also big enough that someone somewhere should have found anything by now.

But, how you remarked about the Mormon religion to me seems to be very condescending. I find it funny that you're very overtly rude over something I no longer believe in and I have yet to say anything about your religion, as I have only spoke about what you have mentioned. I have in fact no notion of what you believe.

As to what I felt. While i may have had a bit of the "burning of the bosom" the key thing I felt was a presence upon my mind. I could feel it when I was scared, I could feel it when I was exhilarated. It felt like light, a light so bright that it pierced everything I did. I could almost feel it, a slight and wonderful warmth affecting my other senses as much as it would my sense of touch. I could almost perceive it via meditation and it seemed to be a line of light passing along and through me, it seemed to be one-dimensional if it could be felt. Later on it felt as though if I truly needed it, it would be there for me--it gave the connotation of a sword of light. So the question is: how much of this is in the mind...

To tell the truth I still can feel the same thing, but I'm warded against any action (like regaining a religion). I'm too fearful that it is in fact easier to be a tool for pain and hurt rather than one for truth. So if you ask me how religious I am even though I'm atheist, I will merely remark that I follow truth, where I can find it.

I hope you can understand that; maybe we share an equal ground here--if not elsewhere.

*nsfw



"Capt. Brad Weaver, commander of special operations for the Indiana State Police, said he took the stage at 8:45 p.m. to warn the audience of severe weather.

Ten minutes later, the wind gust blew through."

Yeah......something like that. Use chains to pull the supports out from a distance or push it over with something that can reach at least halfway up it's height. Better yet is a combination of both, pull the structure's supports out while pushing it in the direction the supports are gone. And throw some chains up high on it to help topple it.

They topple trees near houses by cutting a big wedge out to make it fall away from the house, cut the rest of the tree off and maintain pressure on the tree so it can't fall the other way if a big gust comes along or the tree is rotten or just some sort of freak thing where the tree tries to go wrong way. If possible they will usually cut the top off the tree off so it's easier to handle, but sometimes you can't do that when trees are unstable...like hit by lightning or broken due to storms.

And getting out of the machinery. Those things have roll cages on them that are supposed to support the weight of the vehicle if they roll over onto their side and then some. Not sure how it'd handle being punctured by rebar or narrow shafts of concrete, but it'd at least stand up to crushing better than your body.

>> ^Chimeling:

Why did the driver decide that swerving side to side would be good idea?


He probably didn't. It could have been what Mojofreem said or it could have been a wind gust. And shuac is correct about having a sway control device. They are not always required, but it sure would have helped in this situation.

When you feel things getting out of control... Maybe brake slowly and stop?

Actually, the better option would be if the trailer had brakes and you trigger the override for them.

That plane could probably do it in about 35 mph gusts, not 80. It still does not the negate the skill involved to get the timing right and not accidentally stall the wing by pushing it just a couple angle of attack degrees too far.