I'm sitting here in Central Illinois with the lights off and the blinds open on the big picture window watching the light show.
It's like a strobe light. continuous flashes lighting up the clouds, with some bolts showing through accompanied by the occasional boom.
It's a magnificent light show, one never seen in the areas of California where I've lived in the past.
Nature is incredible...
Ya, electrical storms are freaking NUTS.
I carried one of these around in a protected box for a few years, but it got crushed.
Dug it out of the ground a few minutes after it was made in a sandy ditch.
Still warm. Looked a lot like this, about 5" long...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulgurite
"Where would we be without the agitators of the world to attach the electrodes
of knowledge to the nipples of ignorance?" ~ Professor "Dick" Soloman
just remember, those storms can produce a tornado pretty quick. but the light shows are kick ass.
I AM THE VOICE OF THE VOICELESS!
Yeah, we got a surprise storm like that one night. The threat of thunderstorms earlier that evening was lifted and all was supposed to be quiet. The temperature had already dropped significantly. I wake up around 1:00 am and notice a curtain of light flashing to the west. The flashing was constant and nonstop. I thought maybe one of the 700 Kv powerlines to the west was shorting and flashing over. I mean it was constant. But it was an intense thunderstorm. Within a matter of minutes it was on top of us. The sky was lit up continually, rumbling of thunder was constant. Hailstones, extremely heavy sheets of rain followed with very strong winds. No tornadoes sighted but the NWS said the storm had the rotation to produce one. Within 1 minutes it was moved past us, heading towards Long Island Sound and Long Island. We don;t get really intense ones that often as other parts of the country do but every now and then we do get hit good.
I keep my 2 feet on the ground, and my head in the twilight zone.
We used to get some good ones in the northern Sacramento Valley, Janet. When I lived in Chico, I remember one storm in particular where there wasn't a single moment over a six hour period where there wasn't the sound of thunder, either nearby or distant.
All the world’s a stage, but obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.
one morning i woke to a pretty intense storm with pea sized hail, rain and thunder. Over a half hours or so it passed and the sun came out. But that was merely the appetizer. within a matter of minutes black clouds appeared in the west and all you could hear was constant thunder getting louder by the minute. in about a minute it was overhead. Almost dark as night and golf ball hailstones start pelting everything.followed by heavy winds, lots of cloud to ground lightning and the heaviest wind swept rain i have ever seen. in the aftermath the train tracks got flooded disrupting service, trees and branches down, power out in spots. roads flooded. All within about 5-10 minutes. some people claim they spotted a funnel cloud but I don't know if it was ever confirmed.For the rest of the day all you heard was thunder as the line of heavy stormes passed through to our north and south over the next 12 hours.Originally Posted by KJ6BSO
I keep my 2 feet on the ground, and my head in the twilight zone.
Interesting. Never saw any lightning or heard thunder in Sac.
Must be all that concentrated evil.
Weather here for saturday and sunday is projected to be 117. Its 107 at the moment, ill be playing outside all weekend. Its rough on electronic gear at those temps...and human bodies. Morongo Valley is going to be 126 and Death Valley is going to be 129. I am now getting NOAA warnings on my phone for my area.
If i needed any more confirmation of why we are moving back to New England, this is it.
The louder the monkey, the smaller its balls.
I was going to ask. How can you stand living in that oven ??? For me once the temperature reaches 70 degrees I consider it getting too hot. That is why I am going to move way way up north over the next 9-10 years. For me New York is way to hot and too mild, even in winter. But temps up in the triple digits regularly. I don't call that a place to live, I call it an oven. I don't know how anyone can stand it. To me that is uninhabitable land.
I keep my 2 feet on the ground, and my head in the twilight zone.
Bingo!
In addition to the self centered, arrogant, UFC meatheads...and the men too. This place sucks the life out of any budding spirit. Its a hot, arid place with bad air and bad water, and the hearts are cold as ice. Rude people, horrible drivers and its getting worse. The economy has traditionally weathered all sorts of setbacks, but now it just seems that the casinos and huge companies here are on the move to take over the working class and subjugate them into low wage servitude...its happening across the board, verifiably! The people who visit are a different breed as well, many are alright, but you have to admit the type of folks who come here are the kind looking for cheap sex (fine by itself), get puking drunk and are always looking for free shit. It sounds fun, but face to face, these people are trash. They used to be described as "fun loving" or "just letting their hair down", thats great! But now its a new class, they are cheap, nasty, ill tempered and come with a sense of entitlement that is wholly undeserved.
My wife has been here 13 years, ive been here 27...its just over. There is nothing for our hearts here. She hated it from the get go, i was just lazy about it, but then again, i came here when Vegas still had its old school swagger and charm. So part of me was still hanging on to that, but its been obvious for years now that the old Vegas is gone, replaced by out of town investment properties, rules up the wazoo, military dickish cops and LA gangs, heat, smog, garbage and drunk drivers. Go any direction off the strip and you are taking your chances. People stopped caring about this place long ago, its no longer the top of the vacation charts and it only attracts Walmart assholes now...and a few nice folks who still believe in the old Vegas like i did. But these people realize this sad fact after they arrive, i know this because i see them every day...so does my wife. They leave here saying "Ok, weve seen it, were going somewhere else next time". It absolutely IS uninhabitable land. There are many who love it, of course, but we are not to be counted among them. We have very little in common with these people and mainly keep to ourselves these days, and thats sad as we would like to be a part of a community.
I have always loved my birthplace of New England. The vibe, the people, the seasons...all make whatever negatives are there end up in the lower percentile. After nearly 3 decades of this place, it would be a tough job finding the bad. We are definately heading home in the next 2 - 3 years as opposed to the 5-7 we gave ourselves before. I am freely giving up my cushy job playing music and wont even bat an eye, i need more than surface glitter, this place has no meaning. Theres a very dark energy here and we dont like it.
Not sure if i made this clear yet, we really dont like Vegas.
The louder the monkey, the smaller its balls.
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