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Post by AztecTom on Sept 30, 2010 9:37:36 GMT -8
There has been thunder and now it is raining at my house. I live in Escondido.
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Post by Bob Forsythe on Sept 30, 2010 10:57:29 GMT -8
Just a very cool thunderstorm. It's one of the things my wife and I miss most living out here. Lightning hit a palm tree about 100 feet from our house. I was standing at our kitchen door but not looking directly out of it and all of a sudden there was this blinding flash followed immediately by a huge clap of thunder. The a Somali guy in the apartment house in back of us started yelling, "That tree's on fire!"
Was a small fire that the rain, neighbors with garden hoses and then the fire department put out, but it blew pieces of the tree quite a distance.
Man, by the time I was 17 I'd been through hundreds of thunderstorms back in New York, but never had lightening hit that close. Very cool.
=Bob
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Post by Bob Forsythe on Sept 30, 2010 18:02:35 GMT -8
Funny thing - after the tree got hit and the cops showed up, one of them said we should all go back to our houses since there was still "lightening in the area". While I didn't say it, I was certainly thinking, "you grew up in San Diego, didn't you?" Hell, at that point the lightening was 15 miles to the north of us (using the old formula of counting the seconds between flashes and thunder with each second equaling a mile).
This has been a fun day for me (while recognize that it wasn't all that much fun for the couple of people who had their houses hit). Haven't heard rolling thunder all day long since I left New York 43 years ago.
=Bob
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Post by The Great Aztec Joe on Oct 1, 2010 5:23:44 GMT -8
Yesterday there was an opening in the clouds and the sun appeared about 2 in the afternoon, so I decided to go down to the community pool and swim a few laps. (That is a daily thing for me during the summer.) As I was swimming back and forth and back and forth, the clouds filled the sky and the rain started coming down in buckets. Well, I had one more lap to finish in my daily program so decided to finish it and get out. As I was halfway down the pool I looked up and saw the most bodacious lightning bolt reach across the sky directly above my head. It passed from cloud to cloud, but was impressive enough to make me grab the side of the pool and jump out. I then went shopping. I did not see one ground strike yesterday, but I saw about fifteen lightning bolts flash between clouds.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 1, 2010 9:40:12 GMT -8
Global Warming
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Post by Pssst13 on Oct 1, 2010 11:37:34 GMT -8
I felt like I was back home on O'ahu... It was raining and I was sweeting at the same time.
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Post by PowayAztec on Oct 1, 2010 20:07:02 GMT -8
Normally it would have been fun (except doing the walking section of my route with the lightning flashing.) but we're having the roof on our just remodeled add-on family room. Of course it started leaking as they aren't done yet. We got the buckets and tubs out and gave them a call. They came over and said they fixed the problem. It didn't leak again but it didn't rain again again, either. Hope that's the last of the rain until they get done.
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Post by PowayAztec on Oct 1, 2010 20:09:18 GMT -8
I felt like I was back home on O'ahu... It was raining and I was sweeting at the same time. Today it felt like Hawaii with the smell of the wet foliage in the air. Even with a little humidity I like it because it reminds me of the islands. 3-week trip in six months. Can't wait. |
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Post by AztecTom on Oct 1, 2010 21:25:56 GMT -8
I felt like I was back home on O'ahu... It was raining and I was sweeting at the same time. Today it felt like Hawaii with the smell of the wet foliage in the air. Even with a little humidity I like it because it reminds me of the islands. 3-week trip in six months. Can't wait. You lucky donkey fan. |
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Post by Bob Forsythe on Oct 2, 2010 9:44:30 GMT -8
I felt like I was back home on O'ahu... It was raining and I was sweeting at the same time. Warm rain. I love it and miss it. =Bob |
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