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RE: Thunderstorms - 6/17/2011 9:57:31 PM

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I thought that woman was going to shit herself. To her, an earthquake was nothing but a little old Iowa thunderstorm was the end of the world.

This is true of all areas of the country...it just depends on what you're used to. When I was in OK one winter in 93, they got 14" of snow overnight. It literally shut down the entire north east corner of hte state, including Tulsa. Me, I hopped in my truck and drove on in to work. Everyone else that could called in sick, I was the ONLY midnight shift person that made it in. I grew up in the snowbelt of Upstate NY during the winters of the 70's.

Now, my roomie, she grew up in OK, and to her, a tornado watch was nothing. She'd watch the weather and go about her business. Me, I'm in a panic, watching the sky and freaking out at the first sign of any green sky. She used to laugh at me. Same with my friends in IL....I swore they were nutso.

I'd still rather live with snowstorms than tornados......however, I made sure I moved to a warm place where they don't get snow.......

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RE: Thunderstorms - 6/20/2011 6:42:04 PM

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I work on The Belle of Louisville, which is a river boat. We were cruising up the Ohio River the other day when when severe thunderstorms started rolling in. The lightening was absolutely beautiful, and the thunder rocked the whole boat. The most amazing thing, though, was the fact that it was storming on the Indiana side, but not the Kentucky side of the river. So it was raining over one half of the boat and dry on the other, for the most part. the storm was split almost directly down the center of the boat.

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RE: Thunderstorms - 6/20/2011 6:46:52 PM

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This is true of all areas of the country...it just depends on what you're used to. When I was in OK one winter in 93, they got 14" of snow overnight. It literally shut down the entire north east corner of hte state, including Tulsa.

haha, i actually remember that year. ^_^

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The most amazing thing, though, was the fact that it was storming on the Indiana side, but not the Kentucky side of the river. So it was raining over one half of the boat and dry on the other, for the most part. the storm was split almost directly down the center of the boat.

that sounds really spectacular. ^_^ i drove through something like that once; on my way home from work, it was only lightly sprinkling, but when i turned onto my street to head out of town to my house, i drove into a solid wall of rain that completely robbed me of visibility. it's a wonder if made it home. =p

we're having a lovely thunderstorm at the moment. =)

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RE: Thunderstorms - 6/20/2011 7:33:57 PM

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UK weather is pants compared to some of the extremes that the US experience, but I just love a good old storm and especially an electrical storm, which we don't seem to experience down here much. Back where I was born, three hundred miles north, our house got hit by a fireball twice in one summer, the one I saw, rose out of the tv set to a height of about four feet in the corner fizzing and flashing before falling slowly back down and that was the end of the tv set. The other one I did not see, but my sisters reported it passing through their bedroom wall, just like the last on.

My experiences of electrical storms are mostly on mountains, the kind that makes the air go deathly silent, ( all the wildlife hiding ?) and a low hum in the air and all the hairs on the back of the neck and arms rising and the skin tingly and that was the clue to keep away from water, don't be holding metal objects and get to low ground asap. The trouble is with mountains, rock climbing one has a lot of metal on them and in the winter, no one is not going to have that ice axe at the ready, odd to feel the metal shaft lightly vibrating on its own. Often we wouldn't even get the thunder and lightning to dispel the charge in the air, but the effect would slowly dissipate as we lost altitude.

But now living five minutes walk from the sea, a storm at whatever time of the night or day, I often head for the beach to experience it's majesty. I have just got a waterproof cover for my DSLR, so some storm photography I hope to be doing, but during the day, Bass fishing from the beach is good in storms.

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RE: Thunderstorms - 6/20/2011 7:38:05 PM

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I dig thunderstorms, minus the tornados. Thunderstorm sex is Da Bombdiggity! Even hail is acceptable as long as I am not out driving or have forgotten and left my tools out in it..

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RE: Thunderstorms - 6/20/2011 7:40:03 PM

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Earth quakes I have experienced two of them in Britain, an odd feeling, like being suddenly drunk when not drinking, or on a sodding boat.

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RE: Thunderstorms - 6/20/2011 7:58:39 PM

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I caught this shot last year… Talk about an idiot… I was standing on a bluff under 7200 volt power lines taking time lapse shots of an approaching thunder storm. It was after midnight and no one knew I was on that bluff. Lucky I didn’t get fried.

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RE: Thunderstorms - 6/20/2011 8:00:58 PM

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Thunderstorms! Love 'em!

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RE: Thunderstorms - 6/20/2011 8:01:04 PM

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I remember experiencing a tremor when I was a kid. I was outside playing with friends when I felt the ground shake. I thought my mind was playing tricks on me and forgot about the whole thing until it was mentioned on the news that night.

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RE: Thunderstorms - 6/20/2011 8:27:54 PM

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Interesting video about lightning recorded by video that moves 400 times faster than a normal video camera, showing the initial 'fingers' of lightning coming down from the clouds at 136, 000 miles per hour and the main charge coming up from the earth at 62 million miles per hour. The charge comes from the earth, not the sky

http://www.usatoday.com/weather/research/2009-02-22-lightning-cameras_N.htm

Now I do understand the problems those that experience tornados have to some extent, but I have always wanted to see a tornado, not the piddly things we get from time to time, waterspouts and such, but a real tornado.

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