Blowing & Drifting

Forecast: Significant blowing and drifting, with the possibility of heavy accumulation in rural areas.

Blowing, If Not Drifting

It was crazy windy here today, with midafternoon gusts nearing 30 mph. The wind was so strong that fifty-pound objects (Julia's outdoor play table, loaded with sand) blew away, that our patio screen vibrated violently enough to jump its lock, and that our backyard maples bent about 30 degrees from vertical. And the wind used our bathroom vent stacks to play some funny tricks, like creating in-house breezes that rattled our closet doors all day or - in an even more poltergeisty vein - sloshing the water in the toilet bowl back and forth so loudly you could hear it anywhere in the house.