theotherguy
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So yesterday our area experienced some really heavy winds, like 60-70 mph.
When I got home from school I walked out onto the back porch, and noticed, sitting where the little courtyard in my back yard used to be, a massive, 12 foot tall, 15 foot long green house.
I had never seen this thing before in my life. It was just sitting there on its side right on my back porch. It was crushing some of the shrubbery and had knocked down a small tree. It had been weighted down with 3X8 slabs of wood, which had been tapered together with strips of metal. The whole thing looked like it had just been dropped on my house by aliens. It was very surreal. Now, my house is U shaped. On the inside of the "U" is this little courtyard, which has a small archway big enough for a person to fit through. There is no way that this huge greenhouse made it through this archway, so the only way for it to get there was from the sky. I noticed that our gutters on one side had been knocked to the ground, and some tree branches from an overhanging tree had been torn off and were strewn on the roof.
So apparently, my next door neighbors had this green house in their back yard. It had been weighted down by bricks and pieces of wood, and was tethered to the fence by steel cables. The heavy winds had picked up this entire structure, which weighed probably around 600-700 pounds, tore it from its steel cables, knocked the bricks over, caused it to fly 20 feet in the air OVER MY HOUSE, and landed with a crash in the little courtyard past my back porch.
If some little gale-force winds can do this, I can't imagine what a hurricane or a tornado can do!
When I got home from school I walked out onto the back porch, and noticed, sitting where the little courtyard in my back yard used to be, a massive, 12 foot tall, 15 foot long green house.
I had never seen this thing before in my life. It was just sitting there on its side right on my back porch. It was crushing some of the shrubbery and had knocked down a small tree. It had been weighted down with 3X8 slabs of wood, which had been tapered together with strips of metal. The whole thing looked like it had just been dropped on my house by aliens. It was very surreal. Now, my house is U shaped. On the inside of the "U" is this little courtyard, which has a small archway big enough for a person to fit through. There is no way that this huge greenhouse made it through this archway, so the only way for it to get there was from the sky. I noticed that our gutters on one side had been knocked to the ground, and some tree branches from an overhanging tree had been torn off and were strewn on the roof.
So apparently, my next door neighbors had this green house in their back yard. It had been weighted down by bricks and pieces of wood, and was tethered to the fence by steel cables. The heavy winds had picked up this entire structure, which weighed probably around 600-700 pounds, tore it from its steel cables, knocked the bricks over, caused it to fly 20 feet in the air OVER MY HOUSE, and landed with a crash in the little courtyard past my back porch.
If some little gale-force winds can do this, I can't imagine what a hurricane or a tornado can do!
