Wyoming Wind Lifts Man Off Ground – AI FAKE BUT FUN!

YES, last week's Wyoming winds were NUTS. Definitely above average even for Wyoming.

Even with all the damage done, folks like to walk outside and have fun with the weather. Like the lady in the video below, trying to put a drink from one container into another.

But why stop there? Let's have a little AI fun. Below that is a video of a guy being lifted into the air at a local truck stop. HE'S FLYING!

Here is the lady with the cups of what look like an energy drink or a beer.

Bonus clip before we get to the flying guy - here is someone trying to fill a bucket.

In this case, the bucket is not that far away from the spout.

This is NOT AI-generated.

It's easy to tell that this video is AI from the moment the character starts moving and talking. AI is looking and sounding good, but it's not perfect yet.

He steps outside of the truck stop to show us how bad Wyoming winds are, and he gets lifted into the air, far above everything.

That made me wonder how he plans to get back down without getting hurt.

High winds caused 32 blow-over crashes across Wyoming highways on Thursday alone. More damage was done in the days following, but Thursday was the worst. Power was out in many areas, big trees fell, fences, roofs, and cars were crushed.

It’s a sign most drivers seem to ignore. Even with the warning posted, big, boxy vehicles of all sizes were still out on the road.

Past Douglas, the quartering tailwind shifted into a direct crosswind, and that’s when things started to get ugly.

The first blown-over vehicles appeared south of Wheatland but before Chugwater. In that stretch of highway, the Wyoming Department of Transportation has long posted warning signs and windsocks because the winds there can be brutal year-round. On this day, three trucks had already been tipped over in that very area.

By the time we passed through, emergency crews had already completed their rescue work. The truck cabs had been hauled away, but the trailers remained behind, waiting to be removed later.

Each one had been marked with a large “X,” a signal to other crews that the vehicle had already been checked and handled.

The wind only intensified as we approached Chugwater. That’s where we spotted a toppled Target trailer.

We stopped to visit friends in Chugwater at the Tri-County-Mercantile. One of the shop’s owners is also a school bus driver, and she told me there would be no bus routes running that day. Everything had been canceled because of the wind.

The next wreck we saw involved a rental moving van that had just made it over the Chugwater overpass on the interstate. That overpass is notorious for tossing vehicles around on windy days like this. The driver lost control just past the other side.

They almost made it.

Wasn't there a sign that warned these drivers to stay off the road?

OH YEAH! There was.

That 80mph was soon updated to 85mph, and then beyond.

Our phones let out a yell for a weather warning. Here is what we heard and what the text read.

This was correct. Visibility was low.

For some reason, most of these wrecks were in the Southbound Lane.

The next few were beyond Chugwater, where the crosswinds were recorded at 110mph and beyond.

What you see below is a billboard, just north of Cheyenne.

The sign cover had been ripped off and was violently blowing against the fencing. Thankfully, it did not blow across the highway into a vehicle.

We arrived in Cheyenne to find the wind had left its mark across the city. Trees were down in several areas, and along Capitol Avenue, a bank clock had been shattered, its pieces scattered on the ground below.

There was a little damage done to the radio station vehicle. The front license plate had been bent from the crosswinds. That is impressive.

Wyoming winds brought down trees, powerlines, and ripped open roofs across Wyoming. I saw some of that destruction after driving through Thursday's mighty windstorm down Interstate 25, from Casper. You'll want to see the pictures of that road trip and the many wrecked trucks at this link.

The internet is now full of the mess made in Cheyenne. Here is some of what we saw when we drove into town.

This was the first downed tree we saw at Lions Park.

That prompted us to drive around the park to see what else was down.

This big fellow, below, did not trip over in the normal way. Look at the bottom of that tree.  No roots were dug up. That sucker SNAPPED and fell.

Roots were exposed everywhere in the park. Any tree that had not sunk its anchors low enough rocked and tipped up, bringing massive amounts of soil with it.

Big branches crossed roads and sidewalks.

Cottonwoods are not good and standing up to punishment link this.

Does anyone need some firewood?

Some trees just needed a trim, and they sure got in on this day.

Some trees were lost altogether, and they will be missed.

That is a big root system below.

What do you think the gusts' forces were to tip over that sucker?

A tree fell on a side road along Pershing and across Ames Court.

No damage done here.

We did see a man come out to look at his car, which he decided to move in case the tree above it gave way.

Here is that same tree from the Pershing BLV view.

That is a big sucker. It's a good thing it fell in the direction that it did.

Here is a crew on Dillion Avenue cleaning up a massive tree that fell across the street.

Neighbors were all out in the wind, watching the crew work and talking with excited gestures about the tree coming down.

Not everybody was so lucky.

The photo below shows a car crushed by a big tree, big wind, and an unfortunate parking decision.