EDUCATIONAL INCUBATION & HATCHING CHAT THREAD, w/ Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs

[kwhites634]

This nor’easter is crazy! The weather needs to just settle down! Pick a pattern already!!

“At least seven people have died in the storm -- all killed by falling trees. A 6-year-old boy died in Virginia after a tree fell on his family’s home, officials said. Others include an 11-year-old boy hit by a falling tree in New York state, a 57-year-old man in Upper Merion, Pennsylvania, hit by a tree while in his car and a 77-year-old woman struck by a branch outside her home in Baltimore.”

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Semi trucks are being blown over (the driver knew better! They are warned when winds are too high!), school buses too.

At least one trailer was upset over here. You've surely been on the Chesapeake Bay bridge in a semi. Why they didn't close it & leave it closed for the duration is beyond me. Instead, they went back & forth. Luckily, nobody was hurt that I've heard about.

 

[BantyChooks]

My bantam Am has finally begun laying... in the feeder.
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Congratulations! Now come tell my Ameraucanas to start laying. I think I got sold duds.

 

[kwhites634]

Didn't I hear something about 95 KMH gusts somewhere on the East Coast?

We were supposed to hit 60-70 mph here, however that converts.

 

[BantyChooks]

We were supposed to hit 60-70 mph here, however that converts.

95 kmh is 60 mph.

 

[Pensmaster]

Meantime the turkeys think it’s spring

 

[BullChick]

At least one trailer was upset over here. You've surely been on the Chesapeake Bay bridge in a semi. Why they didn't close it & leave it closed for the duration is beyond me. Instead, they went back & forth. Luckily, nobody was hurt that I've heard about.

We’ve never been in high winds that the police weren’t out, chasing down morons that wanted to keep driving. Even my husband will pull over. Granted, he hates it, and will be mad as a hornet if he is getting near his delivery time (he likes being three hours early. ), but he stops for high winds.

 

[kwhites634]

Yup

I kept my birds in the run 'til the worst was over; not sure they wouldn't have been picked up by 70mph winds.

 

[Pensmaster]

Several trucks were pulling over here.

 

[kwhites634]

We’ve never been in high winds that the police weren’t out, chasing down morons that wanted to keep driving. Even my husband will pull over. Granted, he hates it, and will be mad as a hornet if he is getting near his delivery time (he likes being three hours early. ), but he stops for high winds.

Any sane driver would. A 53' solid wall makes a great sail!

 

[kwhites634]

Several trucks were pulling over here.

Didn't the storm come up the East coast? And it went 3,000 miles, clear across the country, w/o losing intensity? A-flocking-mazing!