[Matthew Roung]

Here in S. Ontario, the past few days have been very windy. An F1 tornado touched down and caused extensive damage in Hamilton. My hanger is facing south, and is unprotected from anything but a north-west wind. Having two planes stuffed in the one-plane T-hanger means the doors can only be closed 2/3rds. Standing on the roof sunday, the gusts were lifting the roof a few inches, not pulling screws or posts, but flexing it. I was in the right place several years ago and got an old school bus for free. It fired right up after a good battery was popped in, and I parked it in front of the hanger. The wind howled throughout the rest of the day and night but I was able to sleep. How did everone else make out?
-Matt

[Trev Page]

We had some big winds a few weeks ago down at the Lubitz farm and Jim Tone's hangar flipped over backwards in the storm!!
Didn't even touch his plane in the hangar. Man, he's one lucky dude. Turns out he didn't put enough cinch buckles on the cable tie downs and they pulled loose. We've since dismantled the hangar and we're going to rebuild it.

As much as the "silverdome" down there is a sand pit (covers the planes in sand) at least my plane is secure. They're calling for VERY high winds today (gusts up to 80Kph!!). What is with this weather??

[Matthew Roung]

How did the wind do that? The wind over here was from the s. west, aren't the hangers at Lubitz' facing north? I wonder if the back of the hanger was left open, the wind would not have had the 'balloon' effect to lift the hanger and flip it. November is the windiest month, but I think we will have more and more of these high winds, the weather is a changing! Never before has there been a tornado in this area in November.
-Matt