The wind was blowing the fire out in the fireplace.

Living on the mountain; the two of us get a lot of strong winds.

Sometimes it sounds like all the trees are cutting, but it is just the wind blowing through them.

I like when there are downdrafts; You can hear the lake house moving as the wind tries to lift it off the foundation. The downdrafts can also create mini tornadoes that twist the trees like a corkscrew… Last week, I was laying in the kitchen and I could smell smoke in the air. I was sure I had closed the draft to let the smoke go up the chimney, but maybe I was wrong. I walked into the kitchen and saw the wind was blowing hard enough that it was almost putting the fire out. The wind was coming down the chimney and whipping at the flames in the fireplace. It mesmerized me at first, but I knew it could be dangerous. I put the fire mesh in front of the fireplace, so the fire could not come out of the fireplace, and after that I called my fiance. I asked him what I should do to keep the fireplace from going out, or the flames from leaping out of the hearth. He told me he was on his way lake house and he would see what had happened, then by the time he had arrived home, I already knew was happening. The wind had ripped the chimney cap off, and it was laying in the yard. The two of us needed to put the chimney cap back on, unless it was broken. I wondered if the landing could have broken the chimney cap, but I had more worries about the wind putting out my fireplace.
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