Utah Flies into Colorado

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Fifty-mile-an-hour gusts of wind have hit our area, bringing with it lots of dirt

It picked up the gated pipe in one of our fields

And flung it clear to the other end

Plus clear over to the next 10 acres.

Whew! 

Linda

20 thoughts on “Utah Flies into Colorado”

  5. Wow! That’s big wind!
    We got it here this morning too, woke me up at 5 a.m… I woke Wade up saying “Honey, I think it’s going to take the roof off. Wait, MY PLANTS!” lol It did take a piece of tin off one of the horse shades, but other than that it wasn’t too destructive.
    That’s a big piece of pipe to be flinging around though. Good thing it didn’t hit a building. Yikes.

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  9. Oh yes, I remember those winds from our Denver days back in the 70’s. They don’t tiptoe in and pussy foot around. Most people don’t realize how farmers are always contending with the vagaries of the weather. I’m enjoying your explanations of how soil conditions effect the timing and progress of planting.

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  10. Does wind mean ‘Springtime in the Rockies’?? Don’t you just love having to haul all that pipe back again? It does mean spring in the South Plains of West Texas. I have 25mph winds overnight tonight and then to be stronger with blowing dust tomorrow. Not nice to be outside at all! We’ll have strong winds off and on until the end of June, so farmers don’t wander too far because of sandfighting once the cotton is peaking through. Planting time is in May here.
    Blessings!
    CottonLady

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  12. YIKES! That severe of a wind never seems to do much good for anybody! Hope your weather is better today. Here in North Dakota we’re under a winter storm watch, HOPING the weather forecasters are wrong and we DON’T get 16 inches of snow! 😦

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  16. Whew just got caught up on a bunch of your posts…where do you find the time or energy….you guys go go go. It is so hard to wrap my head around all your farming activities going on when we are still sitting under a mountain of snow. Rotten Coyotes, I don’t have a whole lotta like for that particular scavanging critter as I’m sure a lot of people don’t. I suppose they have a use….but…well I won’t finish that. Hope the wind quits blowing for you and all that lovely top soil stays right where it belongs.

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  20. Don’t you just love being out in the open so you can see what weather is coming? You do seem to get a lot of wind your way!
    I just saw pics of a tornado your area had last week – a white one, but wicked! (I call your area the flatlands- you know, all the farmland of Eastern Colorado. I’m not very familiar with all the state’s territory yet).
    In Durango, we get New Mexico dirt in our air on windy days! (They say to expect those winds to become more and more frequent, and the best thing to do is to install working shutters! I guess it’s part of the global change going on, and not this La Nina system that’s been active recently).
    Thanks for sharing your world.

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