The Howling of the Wind

We will hit our four year mark on the 29th of June and I can honestly say that every year has brought different climate. We had flooding issues the first two years with somewhere in the 20 inch/year rate and then only 10 inches last year and a whopping 3 something inches this year since July. The only thing that seems to be somewhat permanent is that we usually always have wind. We've had 60 mph wind gusts this weekend which means I'll have to see how many more almonds and peaches we lost due to them being knocked off the trees. It's interesting to see the growth of some of the trees because you can tell just how windy a year was depending on the angle of their growth pattern. Some trees like the pistachios show drastic leans as they were planted three years ago when we also had gusts of winds that were reported in the 80 mph range.
Last night we could hear the whole house as the gusts would come in. We could also hear debris that was picked up and thrown about. We'll have to see what was displaced in our yard. Luckily, I spent Saturday picking up garbage brought in from our surrounding neighbors' yards (bags and other such things) so we will hopefully still have a pretty clean backyard. I luckily forgot to close the livingroom glass door all the way and it made a great pathway for the wind to flow from the screen windows in the front to the screened door in the livingroom. The house did not creak as much as it could, but it made a great environment for Ivan and I to snuggle in and just dream the night away. (If you get a chance ask me about Ivan learning to not drink water laying down and about how much cats puking in the night sucks.)
Of course with the wind being as constant as it usually is we were thinking about adding wind power after we install solar. If solar provides all the power we need we might forego it, but we'll still have it as an option for the future.