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[dancing_crow]

I just get so impressed when the wind blows, and it feels like it has been windy this year. Yesterday the NWS said it was blowing 25 knots from the west, with gusts to 44, and the numbers aren't huge until you remember that on the Beaufort scale that is a six:

Large waves begin to form; the white foam crests are more extensive everywhere.
Large branches in motion; whistling heard in telegraph wires; umbrellas used with difficulty.
 

It felt like if we had installed one more solar panel, the entire house would have lifted off the foundation and taken off downwind. I was thinking what was downwind of us. Due east - the relevant direction when considering a wind from the west - 100 miles gets us close to Boston, and then 25  more to Cape Cod Bay and another 25 or 30 to Provincetown, and beyond that, the open Atlantic. If I thought I we'd float, I wouldn't be that averse to landing on (over) George's Bank, but I do not have a lot of faith on the hydrodynamic stability of the house. Also we are signally lacking a sail or engine, so maybe not.

When I thought it was blowing from south of west, I was thinking we'd end up somewhere in Vermont or New Hampshire, perched in the tops of a copse of trees, tossing madly until the wind died down.

I know, in real life, the house would just tip over and everything would be horrifying and a hideous mess, scary and depressing and miserable. This is a pure flight of fancy. Like dreaming about flying.

it fcking WIMDY

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[clevermanka]

I do not have a lot of faith on the hydrodynamic stability of the house
*nods* I think this caution is wise