Crazy weather here! It was 45(F) when I went to bed. Woke up at 2 a.m. and it was 5(F) with wind gusts up to 65 MPH. Went back to bed. Got up at 5 a.m. and my 40 foot flag pole was lying on the ground. It's been up for over ten years so this was the worst it's seen. If I would have taken the flag down it would have survived. Ten years of 'weathering storms' built up my confidence that it could withstand anything.