Hives in a high wind area

[Eva]

Hi and welcome Sandra! Lots of other forum members have dealt with wind, and here’s a nice thread with pics of things people rigged up:

Simple way to secure hive sections during strong winds

We keep having bad storms. A couple days ago we had a “bad” storm, not a “really bad” storm. The wind got up to 19 mph and was gusting at 38 mph. Last fall and last spring we had a few “really bad” storms (tornadoes, hail, flooding, 50+ mph gusts, etc.). No tornadoes hit my property, but, the winds were pretty intense and many trees blew over. The power was out for 3 days and all roads leading into town were flooded. For this reason, I don’t want to worry about my hive blowing over during one o…

But this one is the best I highly recommend reading the whole thing:

Extreme Weather Preparation

Earthquake and floods are the worst. We anticipate high winds and rain this week. I’m tying 2 milk jugs together by a rope and full of water to hang on my flow hive roof until it passes.