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In the summers, friends allow us the use of a place they have on a remote lake just over an hour northwest of Ottawa. We tend to spend a lot of time on a dock on the lake as the morning breaks and as the day ends. In this case, just after supper, my son and I were enjoying a beautiful sunset, when things started to turn. Let me say that it is very difficult to describe the development of a very unusual storm out of a lovely summer evening.
I am experienced enough in sudden storm development to take appropriate precautions, but something about this one was different enough to make me want to observe it. The band of dark cloud stretching toward the left in the image did not sweep across the sky from the southwest, moving toward us ominously.
Instead, it came toward us like a train from the storm centre, visible in the distant sky above the floating diving platform. One minute the sky was sunny with some high cloud as the sun descended, and then we noticed the approaching band - it was as if it was reaching out of the storm toward us. In fact: it was like a dark train, driving down the track toward us from out of the storm centre. I have never seen anything like it (first clue to take shelter!).
I won’t abuse Flickr hospitality with the sequence of images of the storm’s approach, but in our fascination with watching what started as an unusual cloud formation unfurl toward us, we failed to notice the birds stop signing, the surface of the lake change (visible here on the far half of the water), and then about fifteen minutes after this image trees were downed, docks ripped off (not ours), and about six hours of torrential rain, thunder and lightning ensued (and power was lost for hours).
There have been several violent wind and rain storms in Ottawa in the last few years, including tornadoes, but watching one approach across a lake is a very different experience.
I thought the shape left on the trunk by the torn off branch looked similar to The Scream by Edvard Munch.
Bee Wood below Froggatt Edge.
This is the tree that came down. Glad it didn't hit anything. Very lucky is Dave's Dad. Now to get someone to come in and clean the mess up.
The tops of the coconut trees tell the story too. Hawaii
On the North Shore, waves were reported to be as high as 20m (60 ft)
Cornish, Maine.
Overnight we had some pretty strong gust of wind and this afternoon I found this old poplar tree up on Hessian Hill at one of my favorite spots to watch the sunsets had been blown down.
I really liked this old tree and it's sad to see it broken and gone now.
More Irma. Huge tree down on the house, neighbors two doors up. I don't understand the direction of the wind. Irma was moving from the south. The rotation was from the east. But the winds were from the north! All the trees downed were caused by winds from the north.
I had to clone brush their car out of the image. :-)
This old warehouse had its front doors blown off as well as having holes ripped into each of its sidewalls.
Yesterday's violent wind storm caused considerable damage in the area and was the cause of one fatality in the city. This house was lucky that the tree in its front yard fell across the street.
Boulder was raked by 4 days of high winds this week. After hearing predictions of winds over 100 mph, the electric company preemptively shut off power, fearing that damaged lines would start fires.
At my home, we were without power for one full day and 3 partial days.
Reports of high wind speeds were 96 and 97 mph, and one gust at the National Center for Atmospheric Research Center was documented at 113 mph.
When I saw this scene, I thought to myself that the noise of the winds would have waked the dead.
The fence and this torn flag on a little league baseball field in California are analogous to the division in the USA between Donald Trump and his base and the majority of American citizens who oppose them.
For the last two days the wind has been out of the west at 20 to 50 mph. The ice on Lake Winnebago(the largest lake in Wisconsin) has been thinning and weakening. This is the result on the east shore of the lake.
Boat docks, rock walls, trees, buildings get crushed as the shove advances up the banks. This is one of those situations where nothing can stop what is happening.
With the wind still howling outside, more ice is piling up as I type this.
crushed
by wind blown lake ice
while the lake breaks up
image and haiku by John Henry Gremmer
Part of the siding on this senior apartment building in Winter Haven, Florida was torn off by Hurricane Irma's winds. 105 people were evacuated during the storm but thankfully no one was injured. Our condo building fared better. It sustained no damage. It is constructed of concrete block with steel framing.
this storm was bluish,which I took as being less severe than dark...a mistake I won't make again.
On the bright side,I just renewed my crop wind damage insurance policy....
The aftermath of Tropical Storm Isaias, a short but damaging storm blast that took down trees and power lines all along the east coast. Auburndale, Queens, NYC -- August 5, 2020
Aftermath of the wind today. The construction site down the street had a bit of an accident, when two of the 40 foot concrete walls collapsed into the street. Nobody hurt, but a car parked on the north side of Walnut was pancaked. I assume that nobody was in the car at the time, but it was going to take a while to dig the car out and find out for certain.
One of many fallen trees in northeastern Queens, where Tropical Storm isaias took down the trees despite attempts to save them (the temporary wooden frames) from a water main project. Most of the trees I saw did not seem to have damaged the houses., and these were very tall, very old trees. Utopia Parkway, Auburndale, Queens, NYC -- August 5, 2020
My tree, and at the other end, one of my neighbor's truck. He usually has two parked there but he had gone out to eat.
Irma was tough here in Fayetteville, south of Atlanta. Very strong gusts. I have more damage to show you later. I lost at least 4 trees. One of them the huge fig. Probably roof damage.
At one point Irma covered most of Georgia, Alabama, South carolina, North Carolina, and parts of Kentucky and Virginia. A huge mass of rain and wind. The cloud cover is still very thick. At noon it looks like late evening.
Our electricity was out for 14 hours.
Nothing compared to other places, I'm sure!
I can't even tell where it came from. No sign of a stump. Maybe it's the top of a tree still standing. It must have done a flip since the base is pointed in the wrong direction.
Our tree lady is busy getting the tree off of that neighbor's house.
January 21: The morning after ferocious winds toppled trees in the tree-lined college town of Claremont, Southern California.
Most of you know this is the "Beauty In Ruin" house that I have pictures of on my photostream. A while back I'm guessing this summer there was a good Kansas straightline wind of 80 mph that hit the south side of this old houfe. Needless to say, the wind did a number on this house...it won't last too much longer! Sorry old friend!
This is our neighbours part of the fence. He's not one to repair his property so we'll have to do the repairs ourselves.
Lots of trees were snapped off. This huge tree was pushed down. The root ball actually came out of the ground. You can see our famous Georgia "red clay".
The poor fig tree was hit dead center. Half of it went one way and half the other. You can see the end of the offending tree.
Most of the trees weren't just pushed over. They were snapped off. They were also doing flips. The bottoms ended in the wrong direction. Away from the originating tree.
A huge tree in the forest above Genos, Haute Garonne, which came down in recent high winds. My model is 188cm.
Got away lightly
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About 30 years old and 30 feet tall, it usually had hundreds of figs and fed every creature in the neighborhood. One of my tall hardwoods fell and hit it dead center sending it in all directions. It did the splits. :-)
I took this same photo on Sep 12. Amazingly the cloud cover of Irma was so thick I had to use high iso and fill flash. At midday, it looked like late evening. I took this photo yesterday with the cloud cover gone.
A rainbow is seen over the Chesapeake Bay after Tropical Storm Isaias quickly came through Hampton Roads, Virginia on Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2020. (Photo by Aileen Devlin | Virginia Sea Grant)
Tropical Storm Isaias made landfall in North Carolina around 11 p.m on Monday night. Heavy rain occurred spastically in areas from Central VA to Hampton Roads along with High winds of 40 to 70 mph.