High winds cause issues across northeast Wisconsin

LITTLE CHUTE, Wis. (WFRV) – Excessive winds throughout northeast Wisconsin triggered points for locals and folks passing by.

Bruce Jansen, the Founding father of Residents for an Odor Free Atmosphere mentioned, “Each time there’s a excessive wind trash blows out all through the neighborhoods and we get it caught in our timber and in our bushes and we go round selecting all of it up when the winds all completed.”

Jansen’s group goals to deliver change to points within the valley brought on by the Outagamie County landfill. He mentioned the county may do extra to maintain the trash in and decide up what escapes.

“It’s getting in all places,” mentioned Jansen. “It’s moving into our rivers and our lakes and it’s simply littering in all places and it appears horrible.”

These winds are additionally affecting truckers bodily and mentally.

Chris McKinney, a cross-country long-haul truck driver mentioned, “Horrible. Irritating. Very tiring as a result of we’re attempting to must steer into the wind.”

McKinney mentioned it’s as much as the truck drivers whether or not to tug over throughout excessive winds and he needed to simply the opposite day.

“It acquired windy as I used to be coming as much as Minneapolis by Iowa and it was simply blowing me to the facet and I up there in Albert Lea and nah it was simply an excessive amount of,” mentioned McKinney.

He mentioned this may be nerve-racking for drivers attempting to make a deadline however they must put security first. He tells us if you will cross a truck on a windy day do it rapidly and provides them as a lot room as doable in case a gust of wind pushes their rig into your lane.