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KitchenWitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-22-08 01:25 PM
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OMG OMG OMG - We are having a thunderstorm!
:woohoo:
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hiaasenrocks Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-22-08 01:30 PM
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1. Is that good or bad?
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KitchenWitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-22-08 01:31 PM
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2. It is very rare!
I love thunderstorms.
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hiaasenrocks Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-22-08 01:34 PM
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3. I wish I could give you some of our t-storms.
It's one thing I hate about the southeast. That, and the heat and humidity. And the hurricanes.

Why do I live here?!
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Flaxbee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-22-08 01:35 PM
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4. thunderstorms are one of the things I LOVE about the southeast -
but I'm from Southern California, where KitchenWitch is, and they really are rare there. I think I remember all of 3, and I lived there from birth to age 28.

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hiaasenrocks Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-22-08 01:38 PM
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11. The hail damage, wind damage, tornadoes, power outages...
Hate it.

Not to mention the TV coverage of the storms here. The local channels go nuts and do live coverage during the entire life of the storm, which sometimes last hours if there's a "train" of storms coming through.

Now, I DO love rain. I like a rainy, cold day. I think the Irish call it a "gray day."
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Bake Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-22-08 03:28 PM
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22. Don't forget the big giant bugs-on-steroids
Biggest fucking roach I ever saw was scurrying across my deck (outside, thank God!) last night. It was so big that the dogs had to chase it away. That's down South for ya.

Bake
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skygazer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-22-08 01:36 PM
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5. Could you send it up here?
Just rain - you can keep the thunder if you'd like.
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KitchenWitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-22-08 01:37 PM
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10. Alas we are not really getting much rain either.
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RL3AO Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-22-08 01:36 PM
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6. I don't know where you are, but a fucking huge tornado just hit northern Colorado.
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KitchenWitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-22-08 01:38 PM
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12. Yikes!
:scared:

I am in SoCal. No spinny winds here.
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TZ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-22-08 01:36 PM
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7. Well my cats wish you could have some of ours....
Its a close call who hates t-storms more them or me....:scared:
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Gormy Cuss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-22-08 01:37 PM
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8. CALL CONGRESS RIGHT NOW!
The sky is falling! The sky is falling!
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Tommy_Carcetti Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-22-08 01:37 PM
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9. We are having drizzle here in South Florida.
Which is more rain that what we've had in a long time.
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TZ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-22-08 01:40 PM
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13. amazing
we've had close to 10 inches of rain this month..And you might remember a normal year around here is 40 inches.
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KitchenWitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-22-08 01:40 PM
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14. You guys sure need it.
How are the fires in Florida? Do they have any control?
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Tommy_Carcetti Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-22-08 01:52 PM
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16. I think they finally have them controlled.
For a couple of mornings you would wake up and think that you had walked into a ashy fireplace, though.
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Beaverhausen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-22-08 01:49 PM
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15. Here in Burbank it's really weird weather
Edited on Thu May-22-08 01:49 PM by Beaverhausen
Wind kicking up again and looks like we might get some rain too.

Edit- Don't forget thunderstorms and lightening can cause fires. We don't need those.
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KitchenWitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-22-08 01:52 PM
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17. True
:yoiks:
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Shakespeare Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-22-08 01:53 PM
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18. What is with the weird freaking weather today?
Just figures things would get weird--I'm driving to Monterey in about an hour.

Par for my fucking day so far. x(

It was snowing in the mountains this morning--did you see that on the news?
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KitchenWitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-22-08 01:54 PM
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19. Yeah, I saw that on channel 7
It was snowing where we were camping last weekend!

:crazy:
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RadiationTherapy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-22-08 01:59 PM
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21. 6 to 10 " in Flagstaff today and tomorrow.
We get most of Southern Cal's weather, except it's the "7000' feet up" version.
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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-22-08 01:55 PM
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20. You ARE?
Wow...the sun's out over here!

I know you're enjoying this...



I put in a word with the Big Guy for ya...I knew you were homesick!


:woohoo:
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huskerlaw Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-22-08 03:30 PM
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23. Yeah we did!!
It's done here now, but it rained to beat hell for about 15 minutes, and there were even a few claps of thunder!

And then, for some odd reason, about 15 minutes after the sun came out, our electricity went off. Weeeeiiird.
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