This interesting email from our 33/40 Skywatcher in Gardendale/Mount olive. Received it at 2:31 am:
I am at work, but my son just “text” me and said transformer are “blowing” right and left in the Mount Olive/Gardendale Area…with wind gust close to 60mph…He said he could see them across the skyline blowing up like “little blue bombs”.
Terry Sasser
ABC 3340 Skywatcher
HIGH WIND WARNING EXTENDED
* High Wind Warning has been extended until 8 o’clock this morning but this time mainly from about Jefferson and Shelby County eastward.
* Tree down on car in Cordova
* Gust to 51 mph “down in the valley” in Homewood
* Trees down and power out in Gardendale along U.S 31 but highway still passable
* Very high wind in Helena, estimated 55 mph
* At 3:29 am, gusts estimated 55-60 mph near Greystone
* Gadsden Police report some trees down
* At 3:36 am, power out in part of Homewood for over an hour
* Cable out in Leeds
