The great blow of Friday, 4 January 2008
Wow yesterday was a fun weather day! Suffice it to say that I (and many of my neighbors) will be digging out and replacing fence posts for weeks to come. It looks like someone just drove around in a big truck smashing through fences.
The wind speed numbers for the Sacramento/Elk Grove Area via the National Weather Service state that our highest sustained wind speed was 36 MPH (gusting up to 48 MPH) and our highest gusts were 52 MPH (when the wind was sustaining at 33 MPH.) It seems like the evening news said something about 60+ MPH winds or gusts but to me that’s purely rumor. The winds here exceeded 20 MPH for twelve hours straight.