One year ago we looked out in the evening and witnessed an unusual drama: crazy dance of snowflakes. This year there is just the usual wind.
Last year on the morning after we woke up to this:
…whereas this morning’s walk to the station looked more like this:
The photos are not from today though, it was too cold, but rather from a variety of recent mornings after very windy days. Today was less drastic: no new trees have fallen, but the fences are still more or less in the same state (four months after the strongest wind!) and the smaller trash cans – but not the big one – are lying again. The scene with the bigger one and the cypress trees looks like the aftermath of a Star Wars battle.
One time I spotted somebody taking advantage of the situation:
Elsewhere, for example in Rome where at least two people died, the wind was no laughing matter. Also from the Adriatic coast in Croatia record wind speeds are reported.
I hope that this scene four years ago was the harshest aftermath we will ever encounter around here: upturned heavy wooden table and scattered tangerines, and a pine tree narrowly missing the neighbour’s car.
In that last photo, did the tree land right on the car? Oh, that little cat…..Bestia, would you like a playmate?
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Thanks, Lois. It says in the last sentence that the tree narrowly missed the neighbour’s car. Lucky! Do you have a playmate for Bestia? 🙂
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Ouch! Those were some mighty strong winds. 😳
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Quite, Irene! Luckily our table got turned only once, four years ago.
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The one with the three trash cans is so great, Manja. Was that a kind of art… …or just the wind? 🙂 🙂 😉
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Hihi, Markus, they really look staged, don’t they? I don’t think anybody was moving them after the wind had done its thing. Artsy wind! 😀 Thanks!
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Manja, I’m pretty sure that when a wind can cry Mary… …it’s definitely able to do THAT… …I know winds, they will call that a piece of cake.. …they just do THAT by the way.. 🙂
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Yes I was wondering if the tree had hit the car too.
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Look at the last sentence of the post, Emma. 😉 It was a lucky narrow miss. Thanks!
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Wow! Having to go through the infamous Santa Ana winds every year here in Southern California, I know what it’s like. I hope they quiet down…
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Oh, thanks, Angela. The wind over here comes and goes and never lasts long. Today it’s all calm already, even hot under the sun! And you had a bit of snow, I saw. How much fun was that! 😉
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Some areas of the greater LA area got a dusting. We didn’t get any here on the Westside… ☹️
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Jesus. What happened in there?! Very orderly. I honestly thought it was a joke, like those pretentious art installations, before I read it.
Not cold is how cold?
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Oh, on that day it was about 13 degrees C. Now I’m in Rome and it was up to almost 18 today. In the evenings it goes much down again. As I say, the last two photos are from four years ago when the wind was strongest. The rest happens pretty regularly.
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That’s cold? You’re spoiled.
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Hehe, I told you for the day that was not cold. The day before, with the cold wind, it was so cold that it took my breath away and I rushed our walk with bestia without any photos. Hard to say about the temperature… probably around 5-7.
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Aaaa, ok, I read too many posts at the same time. I’ve been wondering where you were. I seems now I was missing.
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Wow. I did LOL at the precision of the wind and those bins! We had some crazy winds last week — some damage, more power outages, no one injured. Crazy winds. Usually that’s March.
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So you know exactly how crazy these winds get, Joey. Thank you. I wish you no serious damage.
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