Figures that all hell breaks loose the day that I'm taking my bike into service. I can't even remember the last time there was thunderstorm at my parent's place but last night it it was close enough that it shook the house. The thunder hasn't really stopped since before 3am this morning and it's nearly 8am now. It has moved farther away though.
Now I understand how kids can be afraid of thunder. I never understood it before because I had never been in a real thunderstorm but this stuff was crazy loud!
if you go outside and shake a golfclub at the sky while cursing god.... it'll go away
I love thunderstorms...
Our summer weather pattern has started, which means we get that stuff most afternoons.
I used to walk the puppy in t-storms all the time, so she's not afraid of them, she love 'em and wants to go out in the rain [laugh]
Quote from: bobspapa on June 03, 2009, 07:57:07 AM
if you go outside and shake a golfclub at the sky while cursing god.... it'll go away
[laugh] Gonna try that today!
Quote from: bobspapa on June 03, 2009, 08:06:38 AM
ditto
me 3.
i love watchign the water build up and go rushing past.
i also love watching drainage ditches and catch basins, esp during a downpour. my g/f thinks i have issues because of that.
Quote from: KnightofNi on June 03, 2009, 08:57:33 AM
me 3.
i love watchign the water build up and go rushing past.
i also love watching drainage ditches and catch basins, esp during a downpour. my g/f thinks i have issues because of that.
Maybe it's the large boat you've been building, the long beard, the animals you've been gathering, etc.
Quote from: bobspapa on June 03, 2009, 07:57:07 AM
if you go outside and shake a golfclub at the sky while cursing god.... it'll go away
Just be sure that it's a 1-iron (cause no one can hit them.....not even God).
Quote from: NAKID on June 03, 2009, 08:01:19 AM
I love thunderstorms...
me too..
unless i am stuck on top of a mountain somewhere with no shelter. then not so much
Quote from: herm on June 03, 2009, 10:36:12 AM
me too..
unless i am stuck on top of a mountain somewhere with no shelter. then not so much
[laugh]
i love thunderstorms when im not on my bike. I was asleep and the lightening was so loud it woke me up around 5am and continuted on till about 7 this morning. Windows wide open to let all that fresh rain smell in.
T-storms are awesome. And extremely cool, assuming it's not a precursor to losing your house.
I love going outside to watch the sky when one's brewing.
my house was nearly destroyed by a tornado as a kid, scared of storms for a long time.
now i work at the power company, thunderstorms mean i got a good chance of making some money.
Quote from: bobspapa on June 03, 2009, 07:57:07 AM
if you go outside and shake a golfclub at the sky while cursing god.... it'll go away
[laugh] [laugh]
MAJOR t-storm here last night in the hill country. Stayed awake for about an hour while the lightning was striking the golfcourse a few yards away. Wasn't scared of lightning until I lived in Florida. :-X
I love them as long as I am indoors. We maybe get 1 thunderstorm every 2-3 years here in NorCal though.
I love thunderstorms, we get them here in Africa almost every afternoon during high summer [thumbsup]
They are awesome. With the exception of the one I got caught in on Devil's Court House on the Blue Ridge Parkway. A lightening strike knocked me down & damaged my old Nikon N65. It was very surreal.
JM
We got a couple of pretty nice ones last night. Not an exceptional amount of lightning, but really heavy rain. What my friends dad called "Like a cow pissin' on a flat rock." I've always liked lying in bed, listening to the sound of rain on the roof.
Quote from: swampduc on June 03, 2009, 09:12:58 AM
Maybe it's the large boat you've been building, the long beard, the animals you've been gathering, etc.
haha, i'm far to lazy to build a boat. hell it's been almost a full year since i pulled the duc engine apart and it's stillnot back together.
Quote from: IZ on June 03, 2009, 07:45:13 PM
[laugh] [laugh]
MAJOR t-storm here last night in the hill country. Stayed awake for about an hour while the lightning was striking the golfcourse a few yards away. Wasn't scared of lightning until I lived in Florida. :-X
when i was growing up in SE alabama we would get some wicked thunderstorms. i had forgotten how amazing they were until i went to see my mom in FL a couple of years ago.
I've always loved thunderstorms and miss the very dramatic storms where I grew up in AZ. I have had some close calls (saguaro getting zapped while I stood about 30 feet from it, tree exploding road side in the Mtns while driving, parents house getting hit) and still love them.
Now that I live in a land of basements, I get nervous - I hate water in my house. Memorial day we got 4" overnight. Drainage from my neighbors yard filled a basement window well and leaked into my finished basement. I have a sump pump and floor drain, and usually the basement stays very dry. Who knew two feet of water against a window would leak around the sill and weather strip. [laugh] Who ever thought basements were a good idea?
Quote from: angler on June 04, 2009, 08:26:55 AM
I've always loved thunderstorms and miss the very dramatic storms where I grew up in AZ. I have had some close calls (saguaro getting zapped while I stood about 30 feet from it, tree exploding road side in the Mtns while driving, parents house getting hit) and still love them.
Now that I live in a land of basements, I get nervous - I hate water in my house. Memorial day we got 4" overnight. Drainage from my neighbors yard filled a basement window well and leaked into my finished basement. I have a sump pump and floor drain, and usually the basement stays very dry. Who knew two feet of water against a window would leak around the sill and weather strip. [laugh] Who ever thought basements were a good idea?
its a good excuse to get a basement boat.
Quote from: bobspapa on June 04, 2009, 08:32:59 AM
its a good excuse to get a basement boat.
Rrrrrright. It is raining right now, so maybe I should move the canoe down there preemptively I also thought about sealing the window up a bit better and keeping the window well filled with water.......and some fish. Nice aquarium effect.........
Quote from: angler on June 04, 2009, 08:56:32 AM
Rrrrrright. It is raining right now, so maybe I should move the canoe down there preemptively I also thought about sealing the window up a bit better and keeping the window well filled with water.......and some fish. Nice aquarium effect.........
umm, indoor pool. duh!
If you ever want to cause a thunderstorm to end all thunderstorms, as in end a friggin drought monsoon, take El Matador camping. It is guaranteed.
Quote from: somegirl on June 03, 2009, 09:00:45 PM
I love them as long as I am indoors. We maybe get 1 thunderstorm every 2-3 years here in NorCal though.
sorry, but i have to disagree. NORCAL gets hundreds of thunderstorms every summer. thats what starts all the fires north of redding.
granted, they are not
real thunderstorms like you see on the colorado front range. but they do go boom and put down lighting....
Quote from: angler on June 04, 2009, 08:26:55 AM
I've always loved thunderstorms and miss the very dramatic storms where I grew up in AZ. I have had some close calls (saguaro getting zapped while I stood about 30 feet from it, tree exploding road side in the Mtns while driving, parents house getting hit) and still love them.
Loved the thunderstorms at my dad's place on the west side of the Tucson mtns. His house has a clear view of Kitt Peak Observatory.
(http://aftar.uaa.alaska.edu/images/small/kp_lightning_800.jpg)
(http://www.noao.edu/kpno/40th/stickers/lightning.gif)
Experienced lightning striking a saguaro in the back yard as well!
Yes, KNI..FL has some amazing storms as well. The most lightning strikes in the country..FL.
My brother went to Navy boot camp in 1993 in Orlando, FL. He said there would be times they weren't allowed to walk down the street due to the lightning storms...
IZ, where did you get that first pic? that looks awesome! :o
i miss watchign the thunderheads roll in and seeign the lightning light up everything for miles.
(http://www.wunderground.com/data/wximagenew/s/spandauguard/0.jpg)
AZ is known for it's cool ass thunderstorms. They have time lapse cameras they put on the surrounding mountains with high exposure times. It makes for some interesting pictures...
Kni..search for Kitt Peak Observatory. It's a few miles from my dad's place in Tucson. He has a ton of pics like this but looking up at those mtns. There are some pics with red and orange skies behind the lightning. The pics don't even look real!
Quote from: herm on June 04, 2009, 04:22:24 PM
sorry, but i have to disagree. NORCAL gets hundreds of thunderstorms every summer. thats what starts all the fires north of redding.
granted, they are not real thunderstorms like you see on the colorado front range. but they do go boom and put down lighting....
I should have been more specific and said SF Bay Area. Of course I am on the road 50% of the time so I guess you can double my estimate.
I miss thunderstorms. All that energy but it makes you feel so at peace. I remember being a kid, probably 3 or 4, and my dad standing in the doorway looking out while my mother ran around freaking out and trying to make me hide in a bathtub. I didn't want to, so I ran to dad who picked me up. He pointed out what he was watching. We lived up on a hill, down in a valley a few miles off, there was a trailer park. We watched that thing fly to pieces as a tornado approached. I'll never forget it- hell of a sight for a little kid.
Tucson got great lightning shows when I lived there, but it never got storms with the intensity of the ones in the midwest and southeast.
I remember sitting on a mountain top in Malaysia, watching and listening to a thunder storm below me.
Above me was nothing but blue sky, awesome.
Quote from: the_Journeyman on June 04, 2009, 04:20:05 AM
... A lightening strike knocked me down & damaged my old Nikon N65. It was very surreal.
So, You've been hit by lightning? That is so bad ass! I'd tell everybody!!!
Quote from: Nitewaif on June 06, 2009, 07:13:29 AM
I miss thunderstorms. All that energy but it makes you feel so at peace. I remember being a kid, probably 3 or 4, and my dad standing in the doorway looking out while my mother ran around freaking out and trying to make me hide in a bathtub. I didn't want to, so I ran to dad who picked me up. He pointed out what he was watching. We lived up on a hill, down in a valley a few miles off, there was a trailer park. We watched that thing fly to pieces as a tornado approached. I'll never forget it- hell of a sight for a little kid.
Tucson got great lightning shows when I lived there, but it never got storms with the intensity of the ones in the midwest and southeast.
Shit, living a a couple miles from a trailer park means your house is safe. As the joke goes, what does a redneck divorce and a tornado have in common?
Quote from: Jobu on June 08, 2009, 12:59:26 AM
Shit, living a a couple miles from a trailer park means your house is safe. As the joke goes, what does a redneck divorce and a tornado have in common?
tall budwiser cans aplenty?
Quote from: KnightofNi on June 08, 2009, 07:03:48 AM
tall budwiser cans aplenty?
:P
Nah, in the end, somebody is gonna lose a mobile home.
i know it's the lightning i should be scared of but, i HaTe thunder...
when i was little, i used to count the seconds between the lightning and the thunder to calculate how far away it is .....
... i still do it [laugh]
Quote from: DuCaTiNi on June 09, 2009, 03:21:05 AM
i know it's the lightning i should be scared of but, i HaTe thunder...
when i was little, i used to count the seconds between the lightning and the thunder to calculate how far away it is .....
... i still do it [laugh]
Don't forget to divide by five. I do it all the time too, guess we're dorks. [laugh]
Quote from: Jobu on June 09, 2009, 03:22:55 AM
Don't forget to divide by five. I do it all the time too, guess we're dorks. [laugh]
divide by five ???
i've been doing it wrong all these years [laugh]
care to share your formula? [laugh]
i was listenign to the thunder this morn in the shower.
at times i could hear the rain over the water in the shower.
there was a bit of a storm rolling through.
lots of red on the weather map.
We're having a nice little T-Storm here now!
Quote from: NAKID on June 09, 2009, 07:27:36 AM
We're having a nice little T-Storm here now!
+1 started around 4am, and ended around7 and its 1pm now nad it just started back up
Quote from: DarkStaR on June 07, 2009, 11:48:44 AM
So, You've been hit by lightning? That is so bad ass! I'd tell everybody!!!
Somewhat, not a direct hit as I had no burns, but was shaking to the point of it being a bit before I could see properly and able to feel like I could control my truck. It was an odd feeling.
JM
Quote from: KnightofNi on June 03, 2009, 08:57:33 AM
me 3.
i love watchign the water build up and go rushing past.
i also love watching drainage ditches and catch basins, esp during a downpour. my g/f thinks i have issues because of that.
[thumbsup] Awesomeness. Brings out the kid in ya. Truthfully I enjoy extreme weather, nothing bores me faster than 70* with light overcast and no wind. Actually scratch that, I dislike dry heat too, so AZ, NM sucks for me(shitballs I live in NM.. DAMMIT!). ;D
Quote from: DuCaTiNi on June 09, 2009, 03:25:19 AM
divide by five ???
i've been doing it wrong all these years [laugh]
care to share your formula? [laugh]
Count the number of seconds between the lightning and thunder.
Divide by five and you have approximately the number of miles you are from the storm's center.
Quote from: somegirl on June 09, 2009, 05:25:03 PM
Count the number of seconds between the lightning and thunder.
Divide by five and you have approximately the number of miles you are from the storm's center.
Not the storm center, from where the lightning hit. We'll get this right eventually.
The formula is derived from the speed of sound, which is about 740 MPH at STP, but because you don't get many thunderstorms at 0 degrees C, it is more like 760 to 800 MPH at ground level. So, that means that the shockwave created by the lightning travels on average about .2 miles per second. So, when you see the flash, every second before the sound is .2 miles, so if you count to 5, then that's a mile which is why you divide by five.
Quote from: Jobu on June 09, 2009, 07:08:04 PM
Not the storm center, from where the lightning hit. We'll get this right eventually.
Yes, thanks for the correction. [thumbsup]
Quote from: somegirl on June 09, 2009, 09:52:43 PM
Yes, thanks for the correction. [thumbsup]
No problem.
I wasn't trying to be an ass. Don't take it that way. Though I am. :P
Quote from: Jobu on June 10, 2009, 12:30:47 AM
I wasn't trying to be an ass. Don't take it that way. Though I am. :P
[laugh] [laugh] no worries [beer]
Quote from: somegirl on June 09, 2009, 09:52:43 PM
Yes, thanks for the correction. [thumbsup]
You never say that to me >:(
Quote from: NAKID on June 05, 2009, 07:58:38 AM
(http://www.wunderground.com/data/wximagenew/s/spandauguard/0.jpg)
AZ is known for it's cool ass thunderstorms. They have time lapse cameras they put on the surrounding mountains with high exposure times. It makes for some interesting pictures...
Man I miss that ish.......maybe I should just move back.....
I live in the north Texas plains, so we get the fast moving, quite violent, thunderstorms. I love em'.....unless I'm at work and my car gets hailed on. We seem to get a small (size wise, not severity) storm every other afternoon...or every afternoon the last week or so.
I've ridden my bike to work 3 times so far this summer...and rode home in pea size hail twice. [laugh] it hurts.
Quote from: Le Pirate on June 10, 2009, 12:43:30 PM
I live in the north Texas plains, so we get the fast moving, quite violent, thunderstorms. I love em'.....unless I'm at work and my car gets hailed on. We seem to get a small (size wise, not severity) storm every other afternoon...or every afternoon the last week or so.
I've ridden my bike to work 3 times so far this summer...and rode home in pea size hail twice. [laugh] it hurts.
get a thicker jacket with better armor and a chest plate
Quote from: angler on June 10, 2009, 12:22:00 PM
Man I miss that ish.......maybe I should just move back.....
+1 though I'd just like to visit a lot.
My house got hit by lightning when I was growing up a week before we actually moved in. It blew the huge brick chimney off which crashed through the roof and burned off the 3rd floor. The blast was so hot it killed the cacti close to the house and fried the birds in the trees in their nests. It was so loud it broke windows up and down the street. I found pieces of the chimney .5 mile away. That's a lot of energy. I'm glad no one was home.
I still love a good lightning storm though.
Quote from: Desmostro on June 10, 2009, 01:28:37 PM
+1 though I'd just like to visit a lot.
My house got hit by lightning when I was growing up a week before we actually moved in. It blew the huge brick chimney off which crashed through the roof and burned off the 3rd floor. The blast was so hot it killed the cacti close to the house and fried the birds in the trees in their nests. It was so loud it broke windows up and down the street. I found pieces of the chimney .5 mile away. That's a lot of energy. I'm glad no one was home.
I still love a good lightning storm though.
Was your house located in Baghdad or Afghanistan? [laugh]
I've seen exploded trees from lightning but that is just ridiculous. However, I also recently heard that when the ground holds the negative charge (positive charge is brought to the earth from the cloud), the lightning strike has much more amperage and therefore more energy. These usually occur as a "bolt from the blue" and come from the top of the anvil cloud, so maybe one of these is what actually hit your house.
Quote from: Jobu on June 10, 2009, 04:53:48 PM
Was your house located in Baghdad or Afghanistan? [laugh]
Saw a special once that said Southern AZ and Afganistan/Iraq/Iran had similar storm patterns and at the top for lightning strikes.
HUGE storm here tonight in and around Austin area!! Lightning, funnel clouds and 4" hail! Made sure the car was pulled in since we had one of the worse hail storms ever a few months back!
Of course..a ton of bikes started arriving today for bike week. :-X