Well we just weathered our first winter storm. This storm wasn't our normal dumping a bunch of snow on us storm but rather it was a massive storm with hurricane force winds in certain places. I spent yesterday running errands, just in case it hit us hard enough to knock out power. After I was done I had a little time to spare so I ran over to our airport and watched the planes taking off and landing. With head winds that were rocking my car as I sat and watched it was quite impressive to watch the pilots skills as they took on these impressive winds. I watched massive cargo planes push through the wind and do these intense combat type take offs to veer away from the incoming storm. I also got a taste of what our small craft pilots could do as well,  as I watched them land in the space of what looked like a typical size of a large parking lot. It was crazy and showed their profound skill.

Nature wasn't having a much better of a time dealing with the winds. I watched a bird work so hard to try and make some distance against the head wind but get absolutely no where until the gust ceased and they would go shooting across the sky(pretty sure there were a couple that gave up the flight fight and just walked home).

As for us land bound humans driving became a game of quick reflexes, your car would be blasted with a gust and you would steer into it and all of the sudden it was gone and you had to react quickly to not end up driving all over the road, I felt pretty sure I was going to get pulled over for drunk driving. But after all that craziness the morning brought on a new bright, windy and day and it also brought termination dust to our mountains so winter is definitely on its way!