I grew up not far from bianchigirl , so I know those winds that blow across those glacier-flattened plains...

But the worst I ever experienced was on my former commute across the Narrows bridge in Tacoma during a particularly bad spring storm. They don't release wind speeds anymore, other than "more than 40". We would see that listed pretty regularly and got a feel for where that threshold would set off the "high winds warning" sign. During this bad storm, it had to have been over 60mph. It was a struggle to keep upright, like nothing we'd ever experienced before.

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