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Re: Wind kicking up tonight...

By: Decomposed in POPE 5 | Recommend this post (0)
Wed, 16 Oct 19 10:53 PM | 53 view(s)
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I've got a lot of junk holding down the plastic. In addition to dirt edging, the plastic is being held by the truck, the tractor, the four steel soccer goal pieces (three of which were heavy enough to require two people), tree branches, firewood, bricks, cinder blocks, rocks, two hundred-gallon planters (with cinder blocks on top), boards, plywood and a whole mess of wood pallets. It should start raining soon, adding still more weight - well distributed weight, probably. If all that doesn't hold those things down, I don't know what will.

Winds will peak at 23 mph early tomorrow.




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Wind kicking up tonight...
By: Decomposed in POPE 5
Wed, 16 Oct 19 5:31 PM 		Msg. 42433 of 62138

It may get interesting and possibly depressing tonight. Winds will be in the teens from 8 p.m. through 6 p.m. tomorrow, with much of that time in the 17-19 mph range. The strongest gusts my plastic sheeting has experienced so far have been 13 mph.

The perimeters are now lined with dirt. I've already seen that it makes a big difference, but the sheets STILL rise and ripple in 7 mph wind. How they'll perform in more prolonged, higher winds remains to be seen. Wind passing over the plastic seems to create lift, so ANY air trapped beneath the sheets tries to bubble and flow. There's no stopping that.

Today, I'll lay as many long tree branches down as I can haul up from the woods, and tonight I'll park the tractor and the truck so they each hold down parts of two sheets. I'd be very surprised if the sheeting actually goes anywhere, but it may flap in the wind and tear itself to pieces against all the hard things I've now placed on top. There's a little irony in that. It's $300 of plastic, so I wouldn't be happy.

Tonight will be a good test. But if this year is like last, there will be much bigger storms on the way, some with winds in the upper 30s. By then, though, the dirt I've placed on the edges may have grass growing in it, effectively cementing them to the ground.

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