Usually I'm a big fan of storms and lightning but this time I'm pissed. A storm came crashing through my backyard and launched my [s]lightning attractor[/s] gazebo onto my roof and fucked up my dish! Sonofabitch!

[img]https://davnit.net/bnet/vL/files/gazebo.jpg[/img]

It was that bad? Where do you live?

I'm not sure what to say, so..."owned." :P

By the way, don't feel bad. It's been storming here every day for the past 6 days, and the 10 day forcast on weather.com has rain everyday too. So, at least ~16 days of rain..

I live near Houston and the storm wasn't that bad :-\

This is a current radar image. The storm has almost stopped compared to how it was earlier. My biggest regret is that I couldn't have been under the gazebo when it blew away. I just arrived home, looked through my back door and saw it launch.

[img]https://davnit.net/bnet/vL/files/storm.jpg[/img]

Looks like a wussy storm to me. Of course those storms came through New Mexico over the weekend, managed to kill our power for ~3 hours :( Then again thats not saying much because our power tends to get scared and die if there is even a single cloud in the sky.

Yeah Thing, we had some pretty bad storms here in the Midland/Odessa area the last week or so.

You don't know violent storms until you visit either: the polar region seas or the tropics.

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You don't know violent storms until you visit either: the polar region seas or the tropics.
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Despite all the hurricanes I lived through, all the storms, growing up in Florida, they were all nothing compared to the storms out on the open Atlantic ocean. The waves would be higher than the aircraft carrier, crashing down on top of the planes while we watched by camera from below decks.

Of course, after we hit port, it was quite a chore scrubbing all that salt water residue off the planes and their electronics. Especially the wire bundles.

Two words: Gulf Stream.

A tornado took out my friends house in rural Dane County, WI.. And my laptop that I let him borrow! :o

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And my laptop that I let him borrow! :o
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Or so he would have you think.

Out here in California, it's beautiful weather 24/7.

.. it gets old fast. :(

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Yeah Thing, we had some pretty bad storms here in the Midland/Odessa area the last week or so.
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yeah, although my power went out for the first time today since we've been storming, go me!!

(I live in Pinellas County.)

Pah. Minor storms!

I had a hurricane go through where I was staying on vacation.

Pffft, I'm about to get owned by Bonnie and Charlie. :P

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Pffft, I'm about to get owned by Bonnie and Charlie. :P
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Hopefully, you won't have any leaky windows. It turns out that those aren't so fun in a hurricane.

[quote author=Eli_1 link=board=35;threadid=7940;start=15#msg75150 date=1092278326]
Pffft, I'm about to get owned by Bonnie and Charlie. :P
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I am getting owned as we speak. This sucks, the only bright side is no school!

How about some pictures? Our storms in Wales, UK are rubbish. I'd especially like to see some from Grok when you were in the navy when at sea. Thanks.

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How about some pictures? Our storms in Wales, UK are rubbish. I'd especially like to see some from Grok when you were in the navy when at sea. Thanks.
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Gladly! Here is a picture of what it looks like at night, in the middle of the Atlantic, during a heavy storm:

[img]http://www.valhallalegends.com/images/StormAtNightAtSea.jpg[/img]

Very interesting. Its amazing how the blacknesss blends the rain and clouds in so much. :D

How high do the waves out there get?

So dark.... very scary.

Stupid Charley didnt even hit us. Got my hopes all up for a storm.

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Gladly! Here is a picture of what it looks like at night, in the middle of the Atlantic, during a heavy storm:
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No thunderstorm? Post one with some nice lightning!

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[quote author=Grok link=board=35;threadid=7940;start=15#msg75387 date=1092430917]
Gladly! Here is a picture of what it looks like at night, in the middle of the Atlantic, during a heavy storm:
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No thunderstorm? Post one with some nice lightning!
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Thats what I was hoping for, rather than an MSPaint black fill.

Just saw this one posted on another forum:
[img]http://slottet.mine.nu/~bollman/showoff/IMG_0479.JPG[/img]

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[quote author=Grok link=board=35;threadid=7940;start=15#msg75387 date=1092430917]
Gladly! Here is a picture of what it looks like at night, in the middle of the Atlantic, during a heavy storm:
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No thunderstorm? Post one with some nice lightning!
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No one goes on the weatherdeck during those big ocean storms. The waves are so high they crash down on top of the carrier, bringing tons of salty seawater onto our airplanes. Such a pain to clean them after crossing the Atlantic.

There are no city lights to light up the sky on any horizon. The clouds totally block out all light. We literally cannot see our hand three inches in front of our face without a flashlight.

All white lights are banned, under certain conditions. We are only allowed to use red or blue lights. Green tends to have too much white in it. The lens flashlights protect the watchman's eyes from white light, which blinds him from seeing infrared.

Humans can naturally see infrared through their peripheral vision. This is why white lights are banned from topside when going through straights, such as Gibralter and the Suez Canal.

You call those storms? Want to see some photos of the Category 4 Hurricane Charley that just pummeled Southwest Florida near Boca Grande?

Check out the slideshows on there, then tell me if you think a bad storm will do.

We barely got hit by Charley, it seemed like a regular thunderstorm without the thunder. Well, maybe it did thunder, I had been up for 23 hours+was at a laserquest lockin all night and when I got home at 6:30AM I slept for 11.5 hours so I missed it all. Was this worse than Isabel? I know it put my area out of power for about 13 days.

I went down from Tampa to Punta Gorda early Saturday, and the losses seem to be catastrophic.