Mary, indeed that storm caused a lot of damage to several farms, grain bins and sheds in that area. Up here, about 40-50 miles SW of us there was an outfit that had a grid tie wind turbine. I don't remember what brand it was - it was about 90 ft rotor on it. Anyway, it exploded in the storm, one blade went thru the factory roof, another one cut the tower down and collapsed it, the third blade flew about 1/4 mile and hit a house and demolished it. There was no other damage in town other than from that wind turbine. People didn't like the thing near the town at the factory anyway, when it was put in. And now it's smashed, there's gonna be huge lawsuits over it and the owners of the factory won't be putting another one up. When they put it in there was all this hoopla about how "green energy" from the wind turbine was gonna save the factory thousands in electricity bills. It never did. It was there for about 12 years and what it produced in electricity never paid for even 1/3 the cost of the wind turbine.
Up north here we had a nice quiet, peaceful Memorial Day weekend. Little bit of rain on a couple nights, we didn't get even 1/2 the amount of out-of-staters from the Twin Cities area come here this year. The last two years have been nuts with what we call out-of-state "corona boaters". People were out of work, they bought a used boat with their government corona checks, and showed up at our lake in hoards because they had nothing else to do. This year, most of them had to go back to work, gas is high priced, they found out that cheap $5,000 used boat they bought costs $10,000 to make it go for one year. So now they got no money left and and they couldn't afford to come to our lake and raise havoc anymore, and they all got their "corona boats" for sale on craigslist.
We hope it stays that way.
What did show up here mostly left yesterday afternoon. So last night we let our boat down off the lift, Kristin loaded it up with supplies and we went to one of our favorite fishing spots about 17 miles up the lake from our dock. We fished walleyes until about 2:00AM, caught about a dozen but kept two nice 19-20" dinner fish, spent the night on the lake on the boat. We woke up this morning at sunup and the wind was picking up with 2-3 ft rollers on the lake with whitecaps. So we hauled anchor and headed back home. The wind is nuts here again today, gusting to 35 mph, would be a rough ride to go anywhere in the boat today. So we're waiting until it quiets down a bit, then going out again tonight.
Otherwise our Caterpillar generators are silent, power is on and coming in just fine from Xcel ever since they got the lines fixed.
