gapertimmy Posted May 30, 2003 Share Posted May 30, 2003 well we didn't have any quakes in bend last night but we had some fatty electrical storms. they rolled in around 6Pm (while i was at bat for softball, an epic game btw). but they lasted all night long, the lightning must have been rather close to my house as the thunder shook my house and woke me up at least 5 times. electrical storms are way plab, as long as you aren't on top of a ridge exposed. growing up in texas i learned to respect these storms and appreciate them and its kewl to be back in a place where these are common, albeit scary and the fire dangers suck ass, nevertheless ITS PLAB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fejas Posted May 30, 2003 Share Posted May 30, 2003 Crazzy dood... They rolled through the valley bout 3am... was sleepin with the window open and BOOM!!! scared the living shit out of me... flew out of bed and was ready to cap some one in 1.32 seconds... the wife call me back and I was cool... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thelawgoddess Posted May 30, 2003 Share Posted May 30, 2003 i love serious thunderstorms with scary lightning. we hardly ever get those around seattle. been a few years ... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
icegirl Posted May 30, 2003 Share Posted May 30, 2003 E. washington gets them... the biggies, with the lightning darting from cloud to cloud... they fill half of the horizon... you can smell them coming and your hair gets frizzy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sobo Posted May 30, 2003 Share Posted May 30, 2003 OH YEEEEAAAHHH! There was a biggie at the end of last month that hit Royal City as I was driving through that area for my work. You could see it coming from the Columbia for miles. Big, black, roiling clouds. I just pulled off the road and waited for it to come by and spank me. Very plab hanging out in a car in a massive t-boomer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fejas Posted May 30, 2003 Share Posted May 30, 2003 icegirl said: E. washington gets them... the biggies, with the lightning darting from cloud to cloud... they fill half of the horizon... you can smell them coming and your hair gets frizzy Totally... I love the smell of a tunderstorm... spent quite a few summers in the rockies, and the shows there are truely amazing... I once counted 78 strikes to the same granite spire in the Tetons, from the jackson side... the funkin rock seemed to glow red hot afterwards... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anna Posted May 30, 2003 Share Posted May 30, 2003 I was towing a Cessna 650 Citation at 0430 this morning in all that lightning, rain and shit on the tarmac where I was totally exposed...SCARY!!! Very interesting to see however, as I heard that lightning/thunder is pretty rare in this country.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fejas Posted May 30, 2003 Share Posted May 30, 2003 Anna said: I was towing a Cessna 650 Citation at 0430 this morning in all that lightning, rain and shit on the tarmac where I was totally exposed...SCARY!!! Very interesting to see however, as I heard that lightning/thunder it is pretty rare in this country.... depends on what you call rare... bout 5-6 a year in the euegne area... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anna Posted May 30, 2003 Share Posted May 30, 2003 Yah, something like that...people I talked to say once or twice a year in the valley.. Now over the Cascades, that is another story! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fejas Posted May 30, 2003 Share Posted May 30, 2003 we all ready have had three, last nights was medioker, but the one before that was kick ass... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kitten Posted May 30, 2003 Share Posted May 30, 2003 Totally... I love the smell of a tunderstorm... spent quite a few summers in the rockies, and the shows there are truely amazing... I once counted 78 strikes to the same granite spire in the Tetons, from the jackson side... the funkin rock seemed to glow red hot afterwards... I lived in Flagstaff, Arizona for a year and the thunderstorms were incredible. You are basically living in the clouds. I have to agree with the smell of a good storm coming on Nothing can match it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anna Posted May 31, 2003 Share Posted May 31, 2003 I once counted 78 strikes to the same granite spire in the Tetons, from the jackson side... the funkin rock seemed to glow red hot afterwards... WOW you make me miss the rockies! I call clouds that make storms like that: Cumulonimbus OVERTIMEus (Only the firefighters will get that) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eastsider Posted May 31, 2003 Share Posted May 31, 2003 In college I worked at an atmospheric physics lab in NM. T storms formed and spent their entire existence over the lab (which was at 10k feet). You could almost set your watch by their formation. we also shot rockets up into them to trigger lightning down to where we were. I saw some of the most incredible storms there. Unfortunately, in the Tri-Cities, we mostly only get to watch the storms dancing around other parts of the mid-Columbia. But we do get them once in a while (it's looking good for tonight, maybe....) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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