Armed Polite Society

Main Forums => The Roundtable => Topic started by: BozemanMT on April 10, 2007, 04:00:05 PM

Title: The wind
Post by: BozemanMT on April 10, 2007, 04:00:05 PM

I hate the wind.
Just hate it.
Drives me crazy.
I love wyoming, but I could never live there, just too windy

What good is the wind?
Rain has uses, snow has uses, sunny days have uses.
What does wind do?
nothing.

I just spent all day rototilling 2.5 acres in 30 to 60+mph gusts.  I think half the soil is now in kansas, my hat definately is.  Bah
 

Title: Re: The wind
Post by: Boomhauer on April 10, 2007, 04:43:58 PM

It gives me a tailwind if I am lucky, a headwind if I am not, sometimes a nasty crosswind to enjoy. 

Title: Re: The wind
Post by: zahc on April 10, 2007, 05:53:06 PM

I'd like to know why, when I'm skating, it's ALWAYS a head wind. In the morning, it blows from school to home. In the evening, it blows from home to school. Always a head wind.

Title: Re: The wind
Post by: Bigjake on April 10, 2007, 06:36:17 PM

it's good for a challenge when ya run PT on the way out, and a friendly push for the run in.

also hard to beat for drying hay before a nasty low pressure thinger sets in and rains on your unbaled field.

Title: Re: The wind
Post by: Perd Hapley on April 10, 2007, 06:50:11 PM

Wind does everything.  Those cold fronts moving around, bringing you rain and snow, then clearing out the clouds for a sunny day?  Yeah, that's wind doing all the heavy lifting.  You're welcome.

Title: Re: The wind
Post by: Manedwolf on April 10, 2007, 08:48:43 PM

Quote from: BozemanMT on April 10, 2007, 03:00:05 PM

I hate the wind.
Just hate it.
Drives me crazy.
I love wyoming, but I could never live there, just too windy

What good is the wind?
Rain has uses, snow has uses, sunny days have uses.
What does wind do?
nothing.

I just spent all day rototilling 2.5 acres in 30 to 60+mph gusts.  I think half the soil is now in kansas, my hat definately is.  Bah
 

To understand what wind does, wait for a very hot day. Go in your house, turn off the AC, turn off any fans, close all the windows. Sit for a while. That's what the planet would be like if there were no wind.

Thankfully, that's impossible, since what we percieve as wind is the changing air pressure caused by weather systems, regions of high and low pressure.

Title: Re: The wind
Post by: 280plus on April 11, 2007, 04:26:22 AM

Nice poem... 

Title: Re: The wind
Post by: Tallpine on April 11, 2007, 02:58:31 PM

Quote

I just spent all day rototilling 2.5 acres in 30 to 60+mph gusts.

Damn - that is one fast rototiller that you have there 

I'll tell you one other thing that the wind is good for: keeping more Californians from moving to Montana.

Title: Re: The wind
Post by: 280plus on April 11, 2007, 03:25:04 PM

Movin' to Montaaana... 

Title: Re: The wind
Post by: woodcdi on April 11, 2007, 03:46:37 PM

God made wind to protect people like you from gas exuding old farts like me. Without wind, there is no concept of standing up-wind.

Wind is Nature's whisk. It keeps everything stirred up and homogeneous.

Woody

Title: Re: The wind
Post by: never_retreat on April 11, 2007, 04:01:25 PM

Sailing

Title: Re: The wind
Post by: Fly320s on April 12, 2007, 02:39:47 AM

Wind is for windage.  What would all of the windage-adjustment gun sight installers do if there were no wind to compensate?

Don't like wind?  Move to Knoxville, TN.  Least windy place that I've been.

Title: Re: The wind
Post by: El Tejon on April 12, 2007, 02:48:15 AM

Wind drys out the ground at the range so El Tejon can go shooting without sinking to his knees in mud.

Wind is for sailing so even El Tejon can sail about the coasts of Indiana and Illinois and talk like a pirate.  Arrr, I'm Captain Badger, sailing from the free port of Beverly Shores.  Arrrr.

Title: Re: The wind
Post by: mtnbkr on April 12, 2007, 02:53:01 AM

A couple times this winter, I went out for training rides.  They were out and back type rides that I managed to always ride out with the wind, so I was fighting it coming back.  Nothing better than starting a ride averaging 20mph (gotta love it when you're speeding through school zones and residential areas), only to average 14mph or less on the return leg.

I hate wind. 

Chris

Title: Re: The wind
Post by: Jamisjockey on April 12, 2007, 03:38:57 AM

Quote from: mtnbkr on April 12, 2007, 01:53:01 AM

A couple times this winter, I went out for training rides.  They were out and back type rides that I managed to always ride out with the wind, so I was fighting it coming back.  Nothing better than starting a ride averaging 20mph (gotta love it when you're speeding through school zones and residential areas), only to average 14mph or less on the return leg.

I hate wind. 

Chris

I always ride into the wind hoping to catch the tailwind going home.....

Title: Re: The wind
Post by: mtnbkr on April 12, 2007, 05:05:42 AM

Wasn't really an option for those rides.  The opposite direction took me away from dedicated bike paths and put me into traffic.  Funny thing was, I didn't realize I had a tailwind until I came home.  All the time I was thinking "dang I'm strong today".  Doh!

Chris

Title: Re: The wind
Post by: Tallpine on April 12, 2007, 06:20:01 AM

Quote

Wind is for sailing

I used to want to sail around the world (or at least halfway) like Joshua Slocum, etc

With my luck I figured that I didn't need to learn navigation, because anyplace that I wanted to go would always be directly upwind.