🌴In the Jungle, the Mighty Jungle, the Lion Sleeps Tonight 🦁
Nature Just Blew the Roof Off — And She's Coming Back ▪︎ Your Faithful, Furious Correspondent Remember that 1985 Foreigner track, I Want to Know What Love Is ? Beautiful. Soaring. Totally unprepared for what comes next. That's exactly how millions of Americans felt when Friday the 13th — yes, that date — delivered one of the most savage windstorms this continent has seen in years, and then had the nerve to whisper: Round two is Sunday. Let's get the numbers on the table, because they are genuinely unhinged . Winds at Cleveland's Burke Lakefront Airport topped out at 85 mph — that's EF-0 tornado territory. Pittsburgh's airport logged a gust clocked as its fourth-strongest on record outside of a thunderstorm. In Wyoming, a spot near Chugwater recorded 109 mph , the highest wind speed Cheyenne's regional airport has ever measured in 30 years of using modern equipment. Thirty-two semi-trucks blew over on Wyoming interstates in a single day. Ei...