Flagpole installation acrossNebraska

Flagpoles in Nebraska

State work in Lincoln, base work at Bellevue, and school, grain and campus jobs the length of the Platte.

Wind here. Nebraska is 430 miles wide and the Eder wind map does not move across it: 90 mph at the Missouri bluffs, 90 mph at the Wyoming line, and the same the whole way between. Nebraska writes no wind map of its own, and the code figures in circulation are for the engineer to check at permit; 90 is the zone to line up against a pole rating. Either way, the mapped speed is not what picks the pole here — exposure is. On section-line ground with no ridge, no shelterbelt and nothing built upwind, a summer gust front arrives at full strength. Hail is the other Nebraska hazard, and it costs flags long before it costs shafts.

• The Missouri bluffs and the river counties — 90 mph, no different from the rest of the state. The ground is the variable: deep loess above the river, firm as rock while it is dry and letting go once it is wet, so the footing is drawn for the soil rather than for the height.
• The eastern till plains — 90 mph through Lincoln, Omaha and the towns between them. Street grids and old trees give real shelter, so a standard wall usually does, and what is saved on the shaft buys height or a better finish.
• The Platte valley and the farm ground — The same 90 mph on paper, and wide open in fact. We size these as open terrain, which can ask a heavier wall at the same height, and valley sand and gravel take a broader footing than clay would.
• The Sandhills and the Panhandle — 90 mph again, and no part of the state is drawn as a special wind region. What the flat map misses is the Pine Ridge and Wildcat Hills: wind speeds up over an escarpment, so a site on the lip is sized for that and not off the map. This corner also sits in what forecasters call Hail Alley, where the state meets Colorado and Wyoming, so a second flag on the shelf is sensible.

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