Today, this bad ass weather just turned it up a notch...

This morning, I noticed it was getting dark. I mean dark. Then it started raining. So far this is how it's been every single friggin' day for weeks )at least it seems that way...)

Then came the wind. Hard. It was a sound I had never heard before in the house. This was really strong and it seemed very focused. I'm starting to believe that this could have been whatever would be smaller than a microburst.

Anyway, the TV's in the house go silent again. I've been used to that the last week or so. That's the downside of DirecTV. If you have severe weather, it's going to block the signal to the antenna.

But after a while, I noticed that it was getting lighter outside, the wind had subsided and the rain was now lighter and vertical (as opposed to horizontal during that wind gust).

Still no satellite signal. I looked out the window and my dish had been pushed over by the wind.

We get some really high wind gusts around here and that dish has never moved.

Today it did.

Well, I have no idea how to point the dish or where to point the dish, but after the rain (and lightning) stopped, I went out and got on a ladder and just swung the arm from horizontal to vertical. Well, I just didn't swing it... I had to loosen-up the bolts that were still snug to get the dish back to where it was. The wind gust was so strung, I could see where the paint got stripped by the nut as the arm swung.

At least I got my signal back - it's pretty close to where it was... the signal strength may only be off by about 3%.

UPDATE: We lost the signal two more times this evening. The dish never moved, but the rain tonight was really severe. We took a power hit for a few minutes, too. This was a really bad weather day - our worst so far.