Well, apparently it is now too late to edit the poll, so we'll just have to endure the error . . .
(u should be able to edit it, boss -- try clickin' the update button...)
On friday night I was treated to a light show like no other. In the 90 or so miles between Boston and MidCape, there were 7-10 different t-storms. The lightning seemed to hug the highways. I was repeatedly blinded by both raina nd light. The bolts were vivid and sometimes horizontal. Roads were flooded. My only regret was not being able to keep the windows open.
maybe, mayyyyyyybeeeeee we'll get some action this afternnon...
I love thunderstorms and we're due to get some tonight or tomorrow. I hope so. It's 103 right now.
We just got a whole bunch here in Connecticut. Most of them went around where I am, just got rain, but the lightning on the horizon was spectacular.
I jinxed myself . . . i ain't had no good thunder boomers since i started this thread . . .
ya ain't superstitious, are ya?
(knock wood...)
No, and neither is my black cat who sleeps under the ladder next to the cracked mirror where i prop up my open umbrella.
Avoiding setanta, I'll mention some lightening I watched while on the patio. Gorgeous! No rain, just beautiful weather in the 80's. So comfortable compared to 100's.
They be a mountain in New Mexico upon which there is a lightening observation station. New Mexico is a region which gets a lot of lightening strikes (although it can't touch Florida, the lightening strike capital of the planet), and this research station shoots up copper wire lines attached to small rockets to attract lightening. Saw a fascinating documentary on it on one a them smart channels.
Wow, bet that's beautiful and scary!
Them boys and girls make a point of bein' indoors when they fire the rocket . . .
Got a great storm going right now! Flashboomrumble!
I should turn of the puter.......
that was pretty intense -- one bolt set off a car alarm.
it was like there was a huge strobe light on for about 45 minutes
Awesome display last night. I even got my 6 year old into it. She said this is cool! But when I left her room the loud boomers did frighten her - we had a guest in our bed last night.
Set off car alarms around us too.
Oh my, I am sooo scared of them and the one last night were horrible.... non stop lightning and thunder that shook the house.... my boyfriend was sleeping on the couch and I was in the bedroom... I woke up out of a deep sleep, ran in the other room and grabbed him... he was so pissed but oh well....
I grew up in an odd family... everytime a storm came we'd go into the basement in case of a tornado... and we live in MASS!!! ugh
<grinning at crazielady> Sorry about that upbringing - just think about how exceedingly unlikely it'd be that a bolt would fry your house.
It was something! RP - I think it's the boomers that set off the alarms, not the bolts. But, I could be wrong. Actually, I very well may be wrong. What does it? Is it an electrical charge or a shock wave?
The storm that came through here today is thought to have played a part in the Air France plane going off the runway at Pearson. I am not feeling very charitable toward thunder or lightning right now.
