Thunderstorms

[the_Journeyman]

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

[Bun-bun]

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.

[KnightofNi]

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.

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.  

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.

[angler]

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.     Who ever thought basements were a good idea?

[Grampa]

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.     Who ever thought basements were a good idea?

its a good excuse to get a basement boat.

[angler]

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.........

[KnightofNi]

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!

[DesmoLu]

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.

[herm]

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....

[IZ]

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.





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. 

[NAKID]

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...

[KnightofNi]

IZ, where did you get that first pic? that looks awesome! 


i miss watchign the thunderheads roll in and seeign the lightning light up everything for miles.

[NAKID]

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...

[IZ]

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!

[somegirl]

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.