God, what a crappy night in SE MI - look out Eastern Great Lakes, headed your way.

[Denninmi]

Batten down the hatches and secure the garbage cans if you live in Cleveland or Erie, PA or Buffalo.

This arctic front going through here has made the winds absolutely howl since about midnight. I'm guessing sustained 40 with gusts to 60.



My power had been blipping in and out all night, a few seconds at a time, probably 50-60 times since about 12:30. So, I had to go do the unplug everything routine, plus constantly deal with the power warning alarm on my mother's O2 concentrator.

Worst of all, 75 lbs of scared dog who whined, nudged, and generally refused to settle down, didn't sleep at all.

So, guess who else got no sleep? Yeah me.

[orleans]

1. wind has finally died down around chicago.

our power blipped but just once or twice.
good luck to you and yours.
(as for the pooch--my vet told me milk chocolate can have a calming effect on dogs--at least it did for mine after i discovered she ate half a chocolate cupcake and acted out of character--completely indifferent--about a horrible thunderstorm later that night. after that we'd give her a couple little bites of 3 musketeers and that seemed to help a lot)

[poverlay]

2. Chocolate can kill dogs.

I can't believe your vet actually recommended the stuff. Of course it depends on the weight, general health, and age of your dog, but all chocolate is potentially deadly to dogs as it effects their central nervous system. Of course they love it, who doesn't. One little taste can lead to a deadly sneaking of a much larger amount when we're not paying attention. I almost lost my dog when she got into a quarter pound of M&Ms once.

[orleans]

7. if my dog ate a quarter pound of ANYTHING it would have probably

screwed her up too.

just for the record--i didn't say put a bowl of candy down for a dog--i said a couple bites of milk chocolate has a calming effect. also, i didn't mean as a regular diet--i meant instead of having your dog shake/shiver/quake/freak out/go into panic attack mode over bad storms.

[MrScorpio]

3. This wind sucks…

Which is funny, because wind usually blows.

[Agschmid]

4. It is VERY windy in Rochester NY right now.

It actually woke me up in the night and it was one of those... might the roof come off moments?

Thanks for the warning, I'll be inside!

[hedgehog]

5. It just started here in Oswego County - East shore of Lake Ontario -

I'm off to church, then to get in supplies and hunker down. It's going to be coooooold this week!

[Lokey]

6. I hear ya Denninimi

Somewhere around 230-3am I was rudely awakened some crazy loud bang. I think our screen door got blown open and smacked against the house. The news said we had some 50+mph gusts.
Our 110lb baby wedges his big butt under the desk during storms. Funny to see how small he can get.
It's going to get super cold now so bundle up.

[a la izquierda]

8. Frigid, frigid, breath-taking cold here in central OH.

My dogs are spooked when they go out because of the wind. But fortunately, the jitteriest of my dogs is on phenobarbital for epilepsy, and the mess calm him down.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

9. Much nicer weather in SE MI now

Yeah, Saturday night I got up around 2:30am because of the wind. I had to batten down a piece of drainpipe that was banging against the house, and I took down the flag before the wind ripped it down. Then moved the car from under the tree, figuring some branches might come down (and some small ones did). Not bad, though, it was about 40 degrees out.

Computer is on a battery backup, so no problem during the short outages. I don't know the wattage on a O2 concentrator, but a battery backup might be useful there.

Calm now, and hey, it's still above zero (two degrees). I dug my old down-filled parka out of the basement, it's been a few years since we had temps like this.

[In_The_Wind]

10. I slept like a baby last night.

It was snowing lightly when I went to bed last night.
I woke up to this:

Data as of: 7:30 AM 1/22/2013

Current Conditions

Temperature: 15.0°F Pressure: 29.94"

Average Wind: 14mph NW Sunrise: 7:17 AM

Humidity: 41% Sunset: 4:58 PM


Wind Chill: 0°F Monthly Rain: 0.28"

So Far Today
High: 21°F Rain: 0.00" Rain Rate: 0.00"/h
Low: 15°F Gusts: 27mph NW
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