Hi all, As you know by now, this is my first year and I have two hives going and I live in SE Nebraska. My two hives are presently on a crest of the hill where they get great morning sun to get them up and moving right away, but as anyone knows about the plains states, we get wind too. Last night I spent a sleepless night as we had wind gusts well over 40-50 mph around my house. I knew the hives were getting the brunt of it. Tonight it was still gusty, but not quite as much so. However, it was still tossing the bees around and causing several to crash land in front of the hives. My question is two fold: first, how much wind does it take to blow hives over that are 4 deeps high (open ended question, I know, but generalizations are welcomed), and two, I am thinking of moving the hives off the crest and down on the leeward side of the slope near a tree line this winter. In so doing, though, they would not get sun on the hive until a couple hours later in the morning (9:00-10:00ish). Again, I would not do this until this winter so as not to disrupt their flights and so on now during our flow which is happening now. Is it more important to get them out of the wind or get them morning sun? There's really nowhere on my property to acheive both. I am also tossing up the idea of a 6'-8' high screening fence, but since I would like to expand to maybe 10 or so hives in the next couple of years, that would require a lot of fencing. Thanks, Brad