It is really windy outside - I went out to get the trash can and the recycling bin, and I saw them wobble a moment and then they toppled.
Great, I thought. Now I gotta go grab them before they roll away.
So I start to jog over when both the bin and the trash can start rolling. Towards me. One minute I’m running towards them, and the next, I’m bolting away as they come rolling down the hill after me.
It wasn’t nearly as epic as the Indiana Jones boulder-rolling scene from Raiders, but hey - sometimes you take your thrills where you can get them.
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Hahaha! I can hear the theme now.
Yeah, down here in Utah, things get really windy, really fast.
During the summer, its not so bad, but its horrid during the winter *Shivers*
Yeahhhh… It IS really windy today. I was afraid trees would crash into the school…
I had a similar story, except instead of a trash can, it was one of those big plastic kiddie pools. The wind had caught and lifted it so that it was vertical, and I hear this krrssshhh plastic dragging noise and turn around to get a faceful of kiddie pool.
Gotta love mother nature…
Been there… I had a blue, plastic tarp (like the ones that you’d cover a car/boat with) come flying at me the other day, when the winds were 40-50 MPH here! It missed me - barely.
In addition, it seems my Grandma’s trash can lid is “gone with the wind” in a literal sense… and the trash can slid 100 ft or so…
Haha, I can imagine the neighbors watching.. It’ll be on Youtube shortly.
yea, it’s bad here in pennsylvania too. oddly it was snowing as well
Today, Ananth’s block, tomorrow, the world . . .
It was really windy here today too.
Wow you and Hawk just have all sorts of adventures don’t you?
Yeah dude. 40 mph winds here in Baltimore. A classmate had to chase their quite large, airborne, canvases down the sidewalk. Luckily, neither painting went into the street.
ah the sweet irony of life lol
Yeah, i tried staying inside today. when the college closes down, it’s not a really good sign. Snow, wind and VERY icy groud doesn’t make for a good outside experience…Sometimes i don’t like Canadian weather.
True, but what I wouldn’t give for a snow day that delays final exams….
Exactly one year ago (friday), we DID have such a thing - we had around 1″ of thunder-sleet (a thunderstorm with sleet rather than rain), followed by an inch of freezing rain, and 4 inches of snow. Then, the temps dropped into the low teens and the winds picked up to around 30-40+ MPH - sub-zero wind chills! If it had been snowing heavily when the winds were that high, it would officially been called a blizzard, rather than just a really freaking cold/windy night. That was pretty darn nasty by Oklahoma standards!
We got a full 2 days off of classes, and another “unofficial” snow day when some of my profs couldn’t make it to school due to the ice… So, sometimes, snow and ice is a good thing! :)
This year? We’re “stuck” with lows around 25 and highs around 50-70 degrees and sunny. Nice weather, unless you want to see snow!
(all temps in degrees F)
be thankful, one things for sure the global warming is bs lol
I had a little cousin who was small and skinny like hell almost fly away. Her big sister had to grab hold onto her since I was too busy trying not to roll onto the muddy grass laughing.
Ah, ain’t human kind the best thing?
If you’re in PA, I can sympathize with this one. Cept in my case, it was more like 3 trash cans tumbling toward me. One on fucking top of another. I want to know how the FUCK that happened.
Epilogue: I got tripped by the one that was alone, then run over by the other 2.
On Monday, I finally made the trek from my office to the Arlington Apple store to buy Leopard. I felt like I finished an intense hour-long workout.
Ha! I know how that’s like.. We had a very windy day here at some point, in Canada, and I was walking with friends in front of parliament hill.. And all of a sudden, this huge hot dog stand (yes yes, food on wheels!) started rolling towards us UPHILL! My friends shouted at the last second, and I did this matrix-styled dodge.. It was awesome.
In Soviet Russia, Trash takes out you!
dang, these random house hold items, man. my brother once had a fight with saran rap…i think it won..
Let’s face it, if it’s inanimate, it’s trying to kill us. My friends and I honestly believe every inanimate object wants me dead.
True story: lockers fucking open bythemselves and hit me when im walking in the halls at my school sometimes.
I totally know that >.>;;
*Hides* Plus I think my house is getting there too..
I think the correct term is, Indian Jones.
What, you’ve never seen Indiana Jones?! Wow, I feel for you…
I laugh in the face of 50-60 MPH winds! HA! HA! HA! I myself live in Florida, and back in 2004 during the hurricanes me and my friend who lives next door were playing football and frisbee out in the hurricane force winds.We did lose the frisbee after a bit, however we found a new source of fun in tieing a bedsheet to the handlebars of a scooter and wind sailing up and down the street! good times! good times!
Just wanted to say that I loved today’s AGL… not just because I can fully sympathize with them, but also because you said “gorram”. :D Firefly rocks.
One time during a storm, my friend and I went over to another house to get something for her mom, and when we were driving out of the subdivision that the other lady lived in, this metal garbage can blew across the street. But then it started heading for us and my friend was like ‘Aaaaah! Killer garbage can!’ before speeding up. We ended up getting chased by the garbage can for quite awhile before we pulled out of the subdivision. It was very exciting.
One day I was working at this little mini carnival and a storm was picking up. We were tying everything down when I turned around to see the giant slide flying strait toward me, and this thing was huge, and it smashed me to the ground and kept going, we lost our deposit on it because we couldn’t find it after the storm
Dr. Jones! Dr. Jones! You told me to stand right there, and not touch anything! Don’t listen to Blonde lady! She got bleach in her brain from making her hair blonde!
Once, when I was younger and lived in Washington (state…), my mother and her friend took a tarp out on a dock on Lake Washington on a really windy day, tied the bottom two corners to the dock, held a top corner each, and leaned out over the water. Definitely on my “to do someday” list!
Well, at least that’s more exciting than what I just got through doing… I had to dig my car out of snow drift. Took forever and the wind did not help.
Yeah, I’ve had an experience like that back in ‘05 during Hurricane Charlie [i live in florida] we had a trampoline and it got lifted up and turned over to it’s side–then it started to spin around! It was so funny, we would have made $100K if we’d caught it on videotape.