We train very hard under windy conditions. I've actually walked a wire in my backyard with 90-mile-an-hour winds.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
It's very easy to walk on a wire if you spend a whole lifetime practicing for it.
Downhillers are going over 110 miles per hour. But no matter what, you can't hit the fence at 100 miles per hour.
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.
It's quite nice to play on a golf course that, even though it is links, that there's not much wind, which is good.
My boy, one small breeze doesn't make a wind storm.
I walk on the wire; it's my profession, and there are no two high wire walks alike.
I'm from Kansas, so there were a lot of vacant lots and open fields to tackle each other in so we could avoid tackling each other on the street. But running on the street and trying not to get taken down on the concrete, that will make you fast, that's for sure.
To power the country by building 186,000 fifty-story wind turbines - and running 19,000 miles of new transmission lines - just seems impractical and preposterous compared to the idea of building a hundred new nuclear facilities primarily on the sites we already have.
On a very long and very high wire, I will not hope to not be blown off by high winds. I will have the certitude that such could not happen.
If you have the wind farms but no transmission, you just have things blowing in the wind.