WEATHER Yesterday Afternoon We Had a Serious Thunder Storm.

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Publius

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Well, I started off for the gym and there was an in coming thunder storm and to had not started raining yet but the thunder was really loud and rattling the house, so I made it to the gym and a little while it started to rain and boy did it come down and I'm 11 miles from home and I can hear the thunder but it's good ways off.
So I'm doing my workout for Friday (leg day) and I'm one hour into it and one of the girls at the front desk approaches me and tells me I need to call home.
I don't not carry the cell phone around with me everywhere like most people so out to the car get the cell phone out and call home and wife is telling me a serious storm just hit the area and I'm like well I seen the rain come down hard and she went into detail about the 70 to 80 miles per hour winds just hit the house and surrounding area and one of our friends needs our help as a tree just fell on her van and a few other trees had blown over too.
So home I go and it's slow going thinking someone was not watching where they are going and had a fender bender but it turns out to be a tree fell over into the road and the closer I get to home the worse things are looking limbs and leaves in the road and even washouts putting piles of dead leaves and rocks and mud in the road.
I can run and operate a chainsaw but I'm not as fast as I use to be and I have to stop and give my hip a rest and I really have to watch where I'm stepping so I don't fall over, but what a mess I have found that I have trees out back (wood lot) that blew over and I'm going to have a good deal of firewood its just going to take me a while to cut it haul it off and all the other process that it takes.
 
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Publius said:
Well, I started off for the gym and there was an in coming thunder storm and to had not started raining yet but the thunder was really loud and rattling the house, so I made it to the gym and a little while it started to rain and boy did it come down and I'm 11 miles from home and I can hear the thunder but it's good ways off. So I'm doing my workout for Friday (leg day) and I'm one hour into it and one of the girls at the front desk approaches me and tells me I need to call home. I don't not carry the cell phone around with me everywhere like most people so out to the car get the cell phone out and call home and wife is telling me a serious storm just hit the area and I'm like well I seen the rain come down hard and she went into detail about the 70 to 80 miles per hour winds just hit the house and surrounding area and one of our friends needs our help as a tree just fell on her van and a few other trees had blown over too. So home I go and it's slow going thinking someone was not watching where they are going and had a fender bender but it turns out to be a tree fell over into the road and the closer I get to home the worse things are looking limbs and leaves in the road and even washouts putting piles of dead leaves and rocks and mud in the road. I can run and operate a chainsaw but I'm not as fast as I use to be and I have to stop and give my hip a rest and I really have to watch where I'm stepping so I don't fall over, but what a mess I have found that I have trees out back (wood lot) that blew over and I'm going to have a good deal of firewood its just going to take me a while to cut it haul it off and all the other process that it takes.
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There was a front moving east from Ohio towards NY that came through in my area. It was pushing 80+ degree heat. My garage was like a sauna, hot as hell, but strangely enjoyable. I went to do some work in my garden and the rain started. Washed me out before I could finish and rained like hell for an hour. A good soaking rain, which my garden needed. Cooled everything down to the high 60's, low 70's and today, my soil is moist and all my plants are perking up nice and stout. We really needed that rain and we had thunder and lightning too. Not like the old days though.
 
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Dobbin

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Owner tells of what later was termed a "microburst." He says he thought it was a tornado.

He said he could "feel it in his ears" (air pressure change apparently)

The storm cut a path through the town, albeit a limited path about a mile long. Friends of Owner were at his house at the time and they were just sitting down to dinner. The power went off (fortunately dinner was cooked) and they ate by candlelight after things settled down.

Owner says they could hear sirens afterwards. As the friends went to leave, they left but were soon back. "The roads are blocked with trees." By then chainsaws could be heard.

A couple of hours later the friends left and were able to navigate around the remainders of trees left in the road (The Fire Department answers on a "most dire need" basis and seemingly only cut a path wide enough to admit the Fire Engine.)

It took 30 years for the "swath" the storm cut through the town/trees to regrow. The neighbor behind us lost 18 acres of pine stand which had to be cleared and ended up pulped as it was so broken up. Now you would never know.

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