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I am driving around seeing the damage. The worst thing I've seen so far is the big Christmas tree just north of the cemetery has been blown down. I can't remember a December without that tree. Makes me very sad.
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I just got home from driving around Davis County. I think Farmington got it the worst but Centerville also pretty banged up. Lots of big trees down. Farmington and most of Centerville are without power still. Farmington Crossing townhouses got hit pretty good. Several units lost portions of their roofs. We live off of 2nd East in Farmington. The road is close in front of our house right now because of trees and powerlines down. Oakridge Country Club lost over 250 trees.
Those of you familiar with Farmington and the Christmas season know of the huge tree across the street just north of the cemetery. My family moved to Farmington in 1982. That tree was a great reminder of the season for me the last 29 years. My mom even sent me a picture of it lit while i was on my mission. I loved seeing it lit up the day after Thanksgiving every year. It was like the Farmington version of the Rockefeller Center tree for me. Seeing it broken on the ground made me sick to my stomach.
Mother Nature sure can be a dick at times.Last edited by CJF; 12-01-2011, 03:55 PM.A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life. - Mohammad Ali -
FB was full of pics of blown down fences. Looks like quite the storm. Any idea on the wind speed?"Discipleship is not a spectator sport. We cannot expect to experience the blessing of faith by standing inactive on the sidelines any more than we can experience the benefits of health by sitting on a sofa watching sporting events on television and giving advice to the athletes. And yet for some, “spectator discipleship” is a preferred if not primary way of worshipping." -Pres. UchtdorfComment
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Maybe your storm blew through L.A. first. Los Angeles County has been declared to be in a state of emergency. It took me 1.5 hours to get to work today because of all the felled trees. They're calling it the worst wind storm in area history.“There is a great deal of difference in believing something still, and believing it again.”
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Layon was pretty dinged up also. I think we were on the north end of the storm. The people across the street had a huge Scottish pine blow over and land on the corner of their house. Driving around the ward yesterday there was a whole lot of shingles gone and more than a few houses had siding missing. I spent yesterday afternoon cutting up fallen trees. Probably half to 2/3ds of the ward has shingle and/or siding damage. There are a lot of mature trees down around the neighborhood. It is not just evergreen trees either, I've seen mature maple, cottonwood and elms down. Some of them weren't uprooted, but snapped off 1 foot off the ground.
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The only thing that happend to us is that we lost a big patch of shingles and the outside Christmas lights half came off the house - we were luckyLast edited by happyone; 12-02-2011, 07:45 AM.
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So, these were those east winds, right? I remember those as a kid in Kaysville.Give 'em Hell, Cougars!!!
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The strange thing is that the winds didn't even register down in Utah County. Seemed to be centered just North of Salt Lake. Very isolated for a wind storm.
Meanwhile, zero snow anywhere.
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Yep - I can't remember a stronger storm and I've lived in Layton since 1973!Originally posted by myboynoah View Post
One observation - We took the scenic route home from the Festivial of Trees last night - The power outages were spotty. It was eerie driving through Bountiful, Centerville and them being mostily in the dark. My 16 yr old couldn't stop talking about how it creeped her out. Coming up 5th west in Bountiful the west side of the street had power and the east side did not. Like I said it was odd. My Daughter and her husband, who live about a mile north of us, spent the night here because the power was out at there place. Ours went out about 8:00, but came back about 2:30 PM. My father who lives about a mile in the other direction never lost power.
In a side note -The Festival was wonderful as usual.
I hope all the CUFers in Davis County came out okayLast edited by happyone; 12-02-2011, 01:25 PM.
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That storm did suck!
My neighbors lost many 25 plus year old trees.
One neighbor needs a new house after taking hits from 4 large pine trees. I can't believe all the completely uprooted trees that are so tall and so old.
My power was out from about 9 am yesterday until 02:30 am last night.
I spent most of the day out with my chainsaw helping neighbors trim the limbs off pine trees. It's going to take some very big saws to cut the trunks... many of which are laying on houses and power-lines.
This place is going to look very different after these trees are all removed.
I find myself with a lot more sympathy for those that endure Hurricanes now.
100+ mph wind storms suck."We should remember that one man is much the same as another, and that he is best who is trained in the severest school."
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Those are hurricane force winds! Good grief."Wuap's "problem" is that he is smart & principled & committed to a moral course of action. His actions are supposed to reflect his ethical code.
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Main Street and 200 North in Kaysville were devastated.
Tons of huge old evergreens snapped like twigs.
The row of large pines north of Davis High on the east side of Main Street were decimated. More than half of them gone.
That was a favorite spot to grab for the 4th of July parade.
On 200 North, many large trees were down. I saw an RV/camper trailer upside down.
Reports are that Davis County Golf Course, like Oakridge, lost hundreds of trees. (I heard over 300, but you know how accurate these things are.)
Farmington took it hard, but so did Kaysville. It'd be a tough call.
The new apartments being built by Station Park were heavily damaged.
The condos near there had a few units where you could see right into the attics.
We lost our east fence, a couple down spouts, two fence gates and most of our east facing shingles and our shed was heavily damaged.
It wasn't the worst wind storm I remember (I remember one where a lot of people lost roofs), but it would probably be #2 in my lifetime.
So many old, big trees bit the dust.
My wife has a friend here from Ohio. She said, "It looks like a tornado went through here."
It was a brutal wind storm.Comment
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Most astounding to me are the trees that are just snapped off 1,2 or 3 feet from the ground. I'm talking BIG trees. 18-20 inches in diameter. Snapped like twigs. Amazing.Originally posted by Devildog View Post
I remember a wind storm back in the early 80's that did a lot of damage. I remember a couple families losing roofs. But, with these winds, it varies from area to area who gets hit the hardest. Some times it's Fruit Heights/Kaysville. Sometimes East Layton. Centerville or Farmington.
I remember driving to a Utah basketball game with my dad one night during the winds. Nobody was on I15 it seemed but us. There were trains that were turned over on their sides.
Wind can be so destructive.Comment
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You didn't feel any wind? We had gusts of around 40mph, but nothing like what the Davis Co. folks got. I don't see any uprooted trees. The effect here was to just blow all the leaves off the trees and pile them all together.Originally posted by TripletDaddy View PostThe strange thing is that the winds didn't even register down in Utah County. Seemed to be centered just North of Salt Lake. Very isolated for a wind storm.
Meanwhile, zero snow anywhere.
The news last night showed a lot of snow in Cedar City (if I heard correctly). NJIC or ERCougar, did you guys get much out of the storm?Comment
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