Dang Wind Almost Killed My Neighbor!
10-26-2008, 02:33 PM
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Nontypical Buck
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Iowa (Heartland USA)
Posts: 3,249
Dang Wind Almost Killed My Neighbor!
We had plenty of warning that there was going to be 30-40 mph winds today with gusts over 50 mph, so I decided not to hunt today. My 70 year old neighbor wanted to go into the woods and fix some fence. I decided to tag along to make sure he came back out in one piece. We had been in there fixing fence for about an hour and were cutting another section to replace where a tree fell this spring during one of the two tornadoes we had. I heard a crack and looked up and the top of an old walnut tree had cracked big time. I yelled "look out!" and grabbed his arm and started running. He tripped and fell and I went down with him just as that top crashed right where he had been working. I hurt his back and knee when I "pulled" (in reality grabbed and jerked him as hard as I could) him. He then decided today wasn't the day to be mending fence. When I got back to the house, my back started aching. Probably pulled something.[:@] Supposed to be windy tomorrow too and then calm down Tuesday. I just want to get back on that scrape Ole Grandpa made!
10-26-2008, 03:39 PM
#5
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: Manassas, VA
Posts: 3,612
RE: Dang Wind Almost Killed My Neighbor!
I believe you AF...I saw a massive tree fall in the woods this week and my neighbor had a huge tree snap in half yesterday and fall through the power lines on my street. It sounded like a bomb went off.
10-26-2008, 03:41 PM
#7
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Sep 2005
Posts: 6,867
RE: Dang Wind Almost Killed My Neighbor!
i have not hunted my stand in over a week only hunted once since then. I planed to go out tomorrow but we going to get 25s with up to like 40 gust. I ant sitting my big butt in a treestand with 40 mile an hour gust.
]glad it wasnt worse.
