There were several thunderstorms passing through Tuesday. My computer spent more time unplugged than plugged-in!
The second storm was a doozy: One of those monster blue/yellow trampolenes got flipped upwind and dragged its mooring and chain...up-side down! It dragged the shoreline for about a mile downwind. Never seen that before. (Unsecured rafts going by—yes, inverted—no.)
The wind was strong enough to cause my sailboat's aluminum mast to howl like never before—whistle occasionally, maybe, but not
howl.
Waves never had a chance to build, as the wind just blew the tops off them—in streams! Not as bad as that 60+MPH storm last June when you couldn't see the surface for the spray...but bad-enough. Last year's storm caused the woods to roar like a train, reminding me of how a tornado is described.
With the ground being so soggy, and the old forest newly cleared upwind for a building lot, I noticed yesterday that two of my tallest and straightest white pine trees have been "tilted" and now pose a menace to the cottage.
Bummer.
And now today, we've got a "red sky at morning". (5AM).