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    Powerful Wind Storm in Tennessee, Doing Weekend Projects, and Opening the Sun Room

    Another tree down – well part of one. It wasn’t horribly huge but most importantly it didn’t damage anything. The big wind storm was horrible. Our county had up to 79 mph wind gusts. The minimal wind for the start of a hurricane is 75. Only that is sustained wind. We had wind “gusts” up to 79. It was scary. The winds behind the storm were worse than with the actual thunderstorm. I was afraid that a tree or power line or sign would blow into or onto the car. I was relieved when I got home. The power at both mine and George’s employers went out. So we both…