Have you ever experienced the wind helping you across the street?

Question

while walking? One day the wind gust was so strong, I was actually picked up and helped across the street. lol

Answer 1

I was going to college....there was a bridge over a gorge on campus. It was 45 below zero and the wind was whipping.....hit that icy bridge and the wind blew me across it. Glad it was across it and not over it. LOL My heavy back pack was the only thing that kept me earth bound.

When I was in Nebraska I was trying to walk to work on a "breezy" day.....except I was going against it (the wind)....1 step forward...10 steps back....I was worn out by the time I got there. Never experienced anything like that before. Still can't beleive they called it "breezy"....lol

Answer 2

Yes, esp when we lived in FL. The winds at the beach or when a hurricane was coming would really help me along or push me back, if I was heading the other way. I've had that happen to my car also. It's really noticeable when crossing a bridge and think you might get swept off.

Answer 3

Yep - but it's been awhile. I usually only have to walk a few steps from my home to my car and then from my car into work. BUT I sure have had MY CAR whipped around by the wind gusts...and that is scary!

Answer 4

Oh, yah, that's happened to me many times when living up north & the brutal winters came. Really strong winds whipping across Lake Erie, & having no pity for those who are out in it.

Answer 5

Yep. I forget the name of the hurricane. I lived in Florida at the time and needed to go across the street to my brother-in-laws. We were on the outskirts of the hurricane. Got there a whole lot faster than I had planned on! They knew someone was at the door when I crashed into it.

Answer 6

Grand pa...you very badly need to go on a diet! So do I, before you start blasting me...maybe we should go on one together?

Now daisymae...I wasn't always fat. As you can see in the pictures I have posted on the other site. Back in about 1985, when I wore size 7 clothes, I had taken the opportunity to go shopping at the store just across a huge parking lot from my apartment building. When I went over there, a light rain was falling, and an arctic wind was picking up.

Just over an hour later, I was struggling home with four full bags of groceries hanging from each hand when I stepped out from the protection of the store's overhang onto sheer ice. Luckily for me I didn't lose my balance at all, so I didn't fall, but I WAS sliding along towards the intervening roadway without any control over course. And when I made it out from behind the building's protection I was helped along by that cold wind at my back....so much that it was actually managing to push me UPHILL at the store's entrance ramp. This is when I began to panic, because I was coming to just 4 feet of downslope before hitting a rather busy roadway. I am sure there must have been a look of sheer terror on my face when suddenly the soles of my boots were able to grab onto the rougher surface of the driveway, right as it transitioned into roadway, and I finally came to a halt.

I had just relaxed from the preceding terror, when I was slammed from behind hard enough to almost knock me into the roadway, and I suddenly had another 120 lbs of woman holding onto my right arm for dear life. With her babbling "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I just COULDN'T stop!" I took a few more moments to swallow my heart back down to where it belonged. Then I said to her, we'll go over the street together when there is a break in traffic large enough to get across safely, and she nodded back at me. So that was what we did. It turned out that she lived in the apartment beside mine, so while she turned one way to go on to her apartment, I turned the other to go to mine. The last I saw of her, she was disappearing up the road clutching onto the fence that ran beside the sidewalk, and I proceeded up the grass verge bordering my apartment's driveway.

All in all I would say that I was blown maybe 60 feet by that wind, on that ice and it was one of the very few times in my life that I have ever succumbed to sheer panic.

Answer 7

Yes whenever we have hurricane warnings and gusty winds my husband and i have to check out a fish camp he is responsible for and I get spooked walking on the docks against the wind.

Answer 8

Yes and vise versa. The wind can really blow here. Sometimes it's hard to open my car door from inside. Does wonders for my hair!!

Answer 9

It was like that here yesterday.My son had to ride bike home from school and its a mile and a half . He said he couldnt get going cuz it kept pushing him backwards. Too bad he couldnt have had your tail wind ;)

Answer 10

Way back when - - - you know those years - - - - - I lived in the Windy City of Chicago. I would have to cross Michigan Avenue and quite frequently my feet would quit literally leave the ground! Quite an experience!