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Wind, Rain. Snow and Happy New Year!

Posted January 5th, 2009 by lrose

Greetings from a wet Nova Scotia!  Here at Land’s End , just as we thought the storms had all missed us we had a real dose of reality!  A storm hit Sunday Dec 21st. with rain and wind the such as I don’t remember  experiencing in the twenty-three years we have lived here!  Someone with a wind meter clocked the wind speed at 160km an hour  or near hurricane force! We know of one house that had a window ripped out by the wind. Our old house shook for the first time since we moved in. The windows breathed in as the wind tried to suck them out! I felt the bed move and the lamp shade swayed. It was a frightfully exhilarating experience that I don’t care to repeat!

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