Randall Clague wrote:
On Thu, 07 Nov 2002 16:52:26 -0800, Doug Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:You lightweights- I went to college in Boulder, and I was living in a basement apartment 1/4 mile from NCAR the night in January 1982 when their anemometer died at 137 mph. Must admit I was surprised the house was still above me in the morning, though.
So you *admit* you were indoors! Can't really call it weather, if you're indoors. :-)
Oh, when I lived in the tallest building in Boulder*, I went outside to play in the venturi between the north & south towers when the sustained wind was 90 or so, and over 100 in the venturi. I managed to practice tracking for about an hour (this was back in my skydiving days), leaning forward almost 45 degrees into the wind.
Boulder had the advantage that everything that *could* blow away had already done so, and the air had an acceptably small solids content.
Just last week we had to pack up the test stand at sunset in a driving duststorm, winds about 80. Fortunately, the bulk of the blowing crud was about 300 meters south of our test site, and we had little debris. We should have known the storm was coming when the tarantulas started moving into the bunker...
Doug
* Darley Tower North, on the 13th of 15 floors. It swayed like a sumbitch.
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