posted on June 9, 2004 11:15:26 AM new
I have this thing about "bad" weather. I love thunderstorms, high winds, all that stuff - intense weather that doesn't damage anything. Right now there's a heavy thunderstorm out there and I feel great! A few weeks ago, we had really strong winds with a few tornados spotted. I stood out on the front lawn until it was over - what an experience!
posted on June 9, 2004 11:26:27 AM new
OK Dorothy, did you find TOTO in your outing?
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posted on June 9, 2004 11:31:32 AM new
I do! I do! Of course we don't get any here though. I used to love electrical storms. Nothing quite like a sky absolutely alive with lighting strikes and thunder claps. Back when I lived in the midwest we also used have a grand time sitting out on the roof watching funnel clouds and taking bets on which ones would actually touch down.
I iss those types of things. Here they start "Storm Watch" anytime it rains for more than 20 minutes.
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If it's really "common" sense, why do so few people actually have it?
posted on June 9, 2004 12:08:29 PM new
What about the Northern Lights. Those are great to watch lying on a hill looking at the skies and watching the lights. Makes everything very peaceful.
I also like thunderstorms. I don't know they seem to be calming in an otherwise unclaming world. (if that makes sense). Never underestimate Mother Nature.
posted on June 9, 2004 01:58:07 PM new
Libra, I can remember maybe 25 years ago , cool summer night, three cats keeping me warm as I lay back in my lawn chair watching the Northern Lights...in COLOR for the first time in my life! It was the greatest light show I have ever seen and all natural! They covered the entire sky, changing shapes and color!
Sadly now, "you can't see the lake from the road" nor can you see through all the pollution... very seldom do I even catch a flash or two on the horizon... you know, some people in Minnesota have never seen the Northern Lights!
posted on June 9, 2004 08:30:12 PM new
Ya know, this was going to be a PLEASANT thread...no politics, no worrying about who marries who, no nastiness or negativity..then along came the second post, nasty and negative with no other purpose than to be unpleasant.
C'mon Kraft, fenix, and Libra, let's have a good old-fashioned talk about the weather and ignore the "nasties".
What's the scariest storm you've been in? Ever seen a tornado up close and personal? Wanna chase 'em ? What's the best weather day you've seen and what did you do?
Where's your favorite place to sit out a storm? What's the best thing you've ever done in the rain ?!
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posted on June 9, 2004 08:35:36 PM new
Great posts everyone
(I'm starting them all mine this way)
Well, h*ll must have frozen over, because I am with kraftdinner on this one
I love thunderstorms, and where I am (near Seattle) we don't get those, but get lots of rain, BUT when I lived in TX and OK, we owned a farm there too, and would sit out and watch those storm cells roll on in, and the thunder and lightening was cool. Then of course we'd get the sirens go off, and no one ever wanted to get in the storm shelter. I saw 3 touch down in OK when I was there, they were awesome, scary, but awesome.
posted on June 9, 2004 09:14:45 PM new
LOL Crow - I have been up close with a tornado although admittedly a small one. After Twister came out, yeah, I did want to chase them. As a photographer the first thing I think when I see things like that are how badly I would love to be there to photograph it. I remember in the hours after the 9/11 attacks how much I would have given for the opportunity to be there and to capture that point in time, the faces (especially those shots of the ash covered people walking across the bridge).
Sccariest storm I have ever been in was one that I put myself into in the midst of youthful stupidity. It was the act of driving in a true western 3 foot blizzard when I decided that I absolutely positively had to go to my favorite club 30 miles away. 2am on a barely lit highway in the harshest part of this blizzard in a 72 Skylark with damn near bald tires and frozen wipers, looking thru the four inch space that my defroster managed to succeed in enabling me to see only if I scrunched down to view it thru my steering wheel.
As for my favorite place to watch a storm... it was actually back when I must have been only 3 or 4 years old when my father would wake me up during east coast electrical storms to sit on the balcony of our apartment beside him in my little kid sized lawn chair to watch the lightning with him. Those are actually among maybe three clear memories I have of being with my father before the divorce and probably a very big part of why I miss electrical storms so much.
My favorite things to do have always happened when I was on the road. Ineveitable after a show we would end up in the bar after having more than a few would end up outside playing football in pouring down rain or in a snowball fight in the parking lot. Crazy weather always managed to bring out the silliness in us but isn't that always the case?
Something about rain and snow gives even the most serious of people permission to act like a little kid.
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If it's really "common" sense, why do so few people actually have it?
posted on June 9, 2004 09:22:15 PM new
I have seen one tornado. Living close to Lake Superior we didn't have any except one time and I was on my way home from school. it was coming at us. Of course being so young we didn't know what to do. We froze. Thank goodness it turned and never really got to close.
Now what I do remember is snow storms. How beautiful the snow is after a teriffic blizzard. Clean, bright and cold. I could walk to school (only 4 blocks not 2 miles) at 9 am and by noon we could have 17 to 20 inches. No school in the afternoon because the bussed kids had to get home. Some lived 60 miles from the school. Imagine spending over an hour on a school bus. When it happens now parents scream. Then we would wait until about 11pm to shovel. It is so quiet and peaceful. It would be like daylite outside because of the moon on the snow. Thank goodness our sidewalk wasn't long. We didn't have to shovel the public sidewalk because the city used their sidewalk snowplows.
posted on June 9, 2004 09:34:42 PM new
There's two things I love...big LOUD electrical storms and moonlight on snow....I've gone cross country sking at 1 AM when it was so bright I could've read a book in the moonlight. I can put my skis on and take off from my back door...there's nothing like gliding across a hay field that's buried under a clean layer of snow...just me...total quiet...a clear sky and it's 10 below zero....awesome!
Gettin' sleepy, good night!
posted on June 9, 2004 10:56:11 PM new
I love electrical storms and I go outside in them like some of you do. They're wonderful to watch, the louder the thunder and the more lightning, the better it is and it's especially beautiful to watch over a lake. The rain afterwards always smells great and the whole world seems re-energized for awhile and sometimes it's fun to just get soaked in it.
Snow has always given me a secure feeling as it seems so peaceful and it's especially pretty when it covers all the trees and they sparkle too. I've had to drive in lots of scary storms but not so often in the last couple of years.
One of my favorite memories is looking at the Northern Lights with the rest of my family when I was a little kid and I'll never forget the beautiful colors. When I was about 4 years old I remember laying on a hillside with my Dad and siblings and he showed us all the pictures of animals, faces and other shapes in the clouds and I still look for them today. Nature is amazing and I know I don't take time to appreciate it as much as I should sometimes.
posted on June 10, 2004 04:12:50 AM new
I love thunderstorms that happen during the day. Yesterday, it was in the 90's again. However, later in the afternoon a thunderstorm came rolling in and cooled it down into the 80's. I sat on my front porch watching it.
The thing I've noticed about the weather this spring is that I have actually been able to see the fronts approaching and the storms rolling in. I don't recall it ever being so clear before. A few weeks ago, the sky turned a green color. It was frightening at first. I was in my car racing to get home before it hit. I no soon got into my front door then BOOM it started. Only lasted about 10 minutes, but it was a whopper!
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