[NCC] High Winds

Thomas Roscoe k8cx@hamgallery.com
Tue, 12 Dec 2000 18:59:48 -0500


The winds in Eastern Ohio were clocked at 62 mph. They came at about
1:30 AM and contained ice which later turned to snow. My 40 meter beam
rotated 90 degrees. The roads going to work were mostly ice with no road
crews out.
K8CX...

Scott Detloff K8DX wrote:

> The winds were clocked at 80Mph+- at the Akron/ Canton airport
> last night.  At one point, just about got everyone up and headed for
> the basement.  Haven't heard the house creaking like that or the
> loudness of the wind since my tower came down 2.5 years ago.
>
> Only damage to report is a tree falling across my E/W Beverage,
> and the 3EL 40's rotated about 45 degrees and need to be fixed
> back at Europe.
>
> Hope everyone else came out of this one as well as I did :-)
>
> Scott K8DX
>
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