2023 Severe Weather

[Ashful]

My area got 8" of rain last night over about 4 hours. The tracks are where the ground used to be.
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Back when I was in college, I had a job at a tubing and canoeing place on the Delaware river. One part of my job was hopping in a canoe and paddling upriver to chase paying customers off the water and back up to the road for bus retrieval, whenever a serious unexpected thunderstorm rolled through. So, I'd be out there in the middle of the river, paddling my heart out, and wondering why it was safe for me to be there if everyone else is supposed to get off the water.

These guys must be thinking about the same thing. "You say there's a sink hole? You say you want me to go stand there and prop up the tracks? It just happened, and no one knows the extent of subterranean erosion, yet? Uh, I'm not feeling well today, I'd better go back to bed."

 

[thewoodlands]

Nothing severe for weather just another 15 mm of rain that started last night, it ended about an hour ago.

 

[gthomas785]

We mostly got rain but got woken up by a single massive lightning bolt around 12am. The power blinked. Then it was quiet again. Very odd.

 

[Ashful]

We mostly got rain but got woken up by a single massive lightning bolt around 12am. The power blinked. Then it was quiet again. Very odd.

Same thing happened to me about 15 years ago, when I lived in a little historic village along a main road that had 15 kV lines atop the poles. Turns out it wasn't lightning at all, but one of those 15 kV lines coming down onto a neighbor's copper porch roof, and grounding thru their downspout. Sure sounded, looked, and even felt like a lightning strike, when it happened less than 100 feet from where I was laying my head.

 

[gthomas785]

Same thing happened to me about 15 years ago, when I lived in a little historic village along a main road that had 15 kV lines atop the poles. Turns out it wasn't lightning at all, but one of those 15 kV lines coming down onto a neighbor's copper porch roof, and grounding thru their downspout. Sure sounded, looked, and even felt like a lightning strike, when it happened less than 100 feet from where I was laying my head.

That did occur to me as a possibility. This sound rumbled and echoed through the sky like thunder. Far as I can tell it coincided exactly with the power blink, although I was asleep up until the sound woke me up. Power came back on immediately after. Today we got emails from our town offices informing us that their computer systems are down due to a power surge.

 

[begreen]

Fall is finally getting ready to settle in. We had .25" of rain today. That's the most at one time in months. Looks like next week will be cool and rainy. Hope the tomatoes and peppers make it.

 

[thewoodlands]

No frost this morning, we had 39.2 this morning.

 

[EbS-P]

We are under a tropical storm warning now. Predicting winds gusting to 45 and 3-4” of rain. I should go check the tarps on my stacks and roll my tomatoes tower garden back under the porch.

 

[EbS-P]

She’s trying to wrap a full eye. It seems Every storm this year had been stronger that forecast and or intensified more quickly. Tuesday was just a nor’easter.