Midwest Windmills

With the blur of the drive, I could not remember details like where and when at the time. With the passing time, funny enough, those memories are not getting any clearer. That's kind of the point of this blog's name.

The other day, we were driving along somewhere in the midwest. I know that we have all seen wind farms generating power, but I did not know that they could be this big. All along the Altamonte Ridge, there are hundreds of windmills and I do not think that they are all that big. Maybe some are; maybe they are farther away than I realize; maybe they have gotten bigger over the years or in different locations. As we come to these that are fairly close to the highway (yes the same one and only Highway 80 we took until eastern Pennsylvania) I am amazed at how big they are. Compare them to the Big Rig in front of them.

These things are HUGE!

And then I get a better sense of just how big. Later that day, or another day, a truck carrying one of the three blades for one of these windmills passes us.

Seriously??!! Are you kidding me??!!

"Oversized Load" yeah, we got that.

Apparently they are made of something and designed to be light as practical because as this blade passed us by, it was flexing and bending a bit in the wind.

Mazin. Simply mazin to see.