More Wind

Sometimes I think we live in the windiest spot in the country.  It doesn't help that we are on top a hill with fields around us, and don't have many trees in our yard to help block the wind.  If it is at all windy, I can't open the west facing windows because the gusts get so hard, the screens blow out of the windows - no kidding.  We have to keep the screen door which is east facing locked on windy days because the wind will get under the edges and the regular latch can't hold the door shut, however the deadbolt lock on it can.  And forget having cute things out in the lawn.  The wind took down our gazebo last fall, even though the cover was off it, we had 2 or 3 ferociously windy days that shook it so much the screws broke and poles bent.  So Monday when the wind started, I heard something plastic being blown across the yard.  I went outside, because I figured it was the lid on Zach's sand box blowing off again and I wanted to grab it before it ended up in the neighbor's yard.  Boy was I surprised to see it was not the lid I had heard (although it was off), but the wind was moving the Little Tikes playset I had bought at a garage sale for Molly.  Now this thing is as tall as I am and pretty heavy.  The wind had drug it from it's place by the porch out into the driveway.  It was not even tipped over so it would roll or anything, it was still standing upright, but in front of my car.  Now that's some wind.