WIND

[spence]

I'm heading out right now to see if I can put a giant pikie cleanly over the Sakonnet River.

Ron Arra my

Nearly 60 mpg gusts!!!

My yard looks like a freakin war zone.

-spence

[rhodyflyguy]

i just heard from my grandparents who have a place on ninigret pond in RI, they have this like 4" duameter flag pole, it snapped in half earlier.

[Pete_G]

The flag pole at the Fisherman's Memorial on Brenton Point snapped in half today as well. I haven't seen any wind like that since Bob.

It was scary to drive around Newport, between the traffic lights being out and the tree branches falling everywhere.

[basswipe]

Originally Posted by Pete_G

The flag pole at the Fisherman's Memorial on Brenton Point snapped in half today as well. I haven't seen any wind like that since Bob.

It was scary to drive around Newport, between the traffic lights being out and the tree branches falling everywhere.

I'm working on a house near the Newport CC so I had a birdseye view of the Pt. during the full rage of the storm.What a mess.

[Hooper]

That was awesome yesterday! I was working patrol, looking forward to getting down at 4pm, and thinking at 2pm as the sun came out, "Maybe I'll go running outside after work" Then between 230 and 3pm it got dark and what a wind! The all hell broke loose! Wires down causing fires everywhere, car crashes, trees fallen across main roads having to be shut down, total chaos!

At one point yesterday we had 21 officers out on the roads and we could have used double that, what a day! I love wild weather, when the boat is out of the water that is...

[JohnR]

Yeh - was nasty. When the Newport Bridge was shut down I was debating the Mt Hope or just head to a gettogether in Marshfield. I waited it out a little and got traffic reports from RI and Boston and neither would work. The Scenic Highway along the canal was a supposed impassible sheet of ice, 5 mph traffic, roads still snow covered