SO it was a super hot muggy day. I worked all day in a building that was 48c, when I got home the first thing I did was turn on the fans and open all the windows cause it was cooking in the house too. All was good all evening, except the forecast severe thunderstorm held true. For an hour it was all wind and lightning. If anyone ever gets the chance see a lightning storm in the Canadian Prairies, try to see it, truly amazing. Anyway, while I'm getting ready for bed, I realized that it decided to start rain sideways into my windows. I close the windows fast, but it was too late, my entire living room (t.v, computer, walls, carpet, and furniture) are completely covered in water. As I'm dealing with that, I hear some crashing......OMG I forgot about the bedroom window!!!!! I run upstairs to find my bed completely soaked, all my wife's book collection drenched, and three picture frames blown off the wall smashed on the floor. Needless to say I just spent two hours frantically cleaning my living room, and bedroom. Before I can go to bed I need to finish drying all my bedding. At least I got it mostly taken care of rather easily. My cousin had a huge tree in his front yard snap off cracking his front picture window, and blocking his driveway. Thrice there has been ambulance and police tear down the road sirens blaring. Definitely turned into an eventful Monday.

Sucks sorry to hear all that ...
We've got a typhoon coming through too ... hopefully, the worst is past and it hasn't blown my motorbike over - had to move it under the front porch, into the open to pull off the fancy rear suspension, exhaust etc upgrades so I can sell them off ... to fund more kites

On the up side - should be a rocking session tomorrow! :D

Oh wow so glad I didn't go to the ocean today - 66 knot gusts :o watching the window to my office flexing in the gusts here now!

I've got just two words for you, "air conditioning".

[Just kidding of course.]

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Originally posted by bigkahuna I've got just two words for you, "air conditioning". [Just kidding of course.]

Is it usually so cool you don't need AC?

Prarrie lightning storms !


Boy, do I miss those !

Was it - Sheet Lightning ?

Really sorry to hear that shaggs.... hope the clean up isn't too bad and nothing irreplaceable has to be binned.

Old Victorians aren't really conducive to central air either.

Sometimes we watch to weather station to see which way the winds are blowing and determing which windows stay closed. Other times we crack the windows from the top so that the eaves stop all but horizontal rain from getting in.

Hope things dry out for you soon without too much collateral damage.

ATB,
Sam

good goes bad...pheelin' yo pain.

last night around 7-ish...
my brother lives about 15-20 min south of me and got hit big time with hail...also for topping on cake a tree fell on his house
his house/travel trailer/ (2month old shiny new) truck all got some pretty decent hail damage.
thank gawd for insurance i guess.
all i got was the rain but hail is a real kicker here and i remember many many "holy cow that's a lot of hail" times.
i gotta ask macboy how cooking lake is doing...how much it has filled this year.

Sorry man, but next time keep the windows closed and put out the GoPro to share the show. i would love to see that Prarrie lightning show... I live on the East Coast of the US and i love the lightning storms here that the West Coast doesn't get.


:wee:

Similar conditions here years ago became known as "The labor day storm". It was like someone spraying a fire hose thru the windows and the lightening was like a strobe light flashing , trees were flopping over everywhere. Not one to miss a good storm I stood out on a 2nd floor balcony for about 5seconds, long enough to know I should'nt be out there. Sharpen the chain saw you're going to need it.

Again 100s all week dry dry dry. Oh and no wind at night it drops to 90ish. This is the weather forecast for this week. and has been like this for a few weeks now we had rain like 2 days and they lasted an hour.

Here on the Oregon Coast it has been 60 - 65 F, cloudy, misty rain breaking into heavy for a bit. This has been going on for about 10 days now. The next few days are partly cloudy sun in the afternoon and onshore winds about 10mph.

Oh yeah... sorry you guys are baking!

Thanks for the concern fellas. The damage was minor, most of the work entailed taking everything in my living room apart to dry it. The glass in the bedrooms was relatively easy to vacuum (I'm sure my neighbors weren't too happy bout that at midnight). Was up till past 3am drying all my bedding and getting it all sorted. Storm took out power everywhere,knocked over tons of trees, toppled over huge filled grain bins, flattened a couple large buildings that were on wheels to be moved. The list goes on, the news this morning reported winds gusted to over 120km/h at times, but mostly hovered from 95-100km/h. Needless to say it was real eventful for a lot of people.

@Bladrunner- we had a mixture of sheet lightning in the beginning, and a lot of fork lightning as the storm grew. Wonder if the GoPro would pick it up in the night time??? A thought of mine has been to get the suction mount for my vehicle, and set it up on the roof taking video of a lightning storm from a hilltop out of town.

Shaggs, close your windows :shocked2: we're sending another set of severe storms to you tonight. Sorry to hear you got it. Glad you didn't have to run out to the store while the house aired out (done that, won't do it again)

We always pay for the hot days with some spectacular cloud formations and storms. At least you can see them coming for hours and they usually pass over quickly leaving a cold air mass behind.