holy storms batman!

[purbeast0]

there are some really weird storms going on right now. it woke me and my wife up. there has been like a CONSTANT thunder for the past 15 minutes, really heavy rain on/off, and some loud booms here and there! i can't go back to sleep cause its so loud lol.

 

[RaistlinZ]

Yeah, the bluk of it just moved past Vienna. It's heading eastward past D.C. now I reckon. Pretty neat stuff.

 

[S Freud]

Wish it was happening here. We never get good storms down here.

 

[Vette73]

Yea its comeing down HARD right now near foggy bottom and State Dept.

I had to run from FB to State with nothing but my jacket on my head. I am SOAKED!!!

About 40-50 people are held up at FB station trying to wait it out.

 

[CalvinHobbes]

Just got into work, made it before the bad rains which seem to be just south of here. Tons of lightning and thunder though. DC101 went out a few times when lightning struck.

 

[AmberClad]

Dammit, I left an hour later than I normally would, and I got caught right in the middle of that storm. At least I managed to make it onto the Beltway before WTOP reported the tree falling onto 123 near the ramp.

Originally posted by: CalvinHobbes
DC101 went out a few times when lightning struck.

WTOP went out for about five minutes too.

 

[Sea Moose]

Originally posted by: purbeast0
there are some really weird storms going on right now. it woke me and my wife up. there has been like a CONSTANT thunder for the past 15 minutes, really heavy rain on/off, and some loud booms here and there! i can't go back to sleep cause its so loud lol.

Its the rapture, pray to your god, repent your sins, hail jeebus

 

[destrekor]

ooo looking at the radar looks mighty purty. I love thunderstorms, especially when they are around when I have the chance to just sit out on a deck or porch and waste time by watching them.
much like I'm wasting time by posting in ATOT right now. damn me. back to work sir. :crack: sometimes I feel like I need a zoo keeper with a tiger on chains right next to me, and whenever I drift off from work, like I am still doing, the tension of the chain would slack a bit. oooo just felt a chill imagining just that happening right now...

ugh, all nighters are strange

 

[TangoJuliet]

I'm at work right now and all of our DCA and BWI flights are stopped. The band of storms that are hitting you guys now have tops to FL530 (53,000 feet) and they're heading this way. Its going to be a looooooooong day at work.

 

[bucwylde23]

Down here near Quantico it passed through on my way in. Lots of lightning, it was actually really cool despite the traffic it caused on I-95.

 

[TruePaige]

It's been raining pretty hard southeast of DC for me. Keep your stupid storm!

 

[Triumph]

In my half awake confusion, I was pretty sure that Armageddon was here. I was half dreaming about which guns I would choose to take, and cursing that my dirt bike was out of gas.

 

[Scouzer]

I'm looking at the lightning detector now, looks like most of it has moved away from DC hasn't it? Sure is a shit load of hits though!

 

[Sea Moose]

Originally posted by: Triumph
In my half awake confusion, I was pretty sure that Armageddon was here. I was half dreaming about which guns I would choose to take, and cursing that my dirt bike was out of gas.

Told you so

 

[Nemesis 1]

Ya we had a weird storm last night . Dumped a bunch.

Fri.day night my son and neighbor took me to the races. I don't get out much anymore. But I noticed when Sun was setting that it seemed to far north. So I said something to son about it. Ha laughed it off . Than I asked older guy close by . If he noticed anything funny about sun . He is hunter I new him . He looked at it for a moment. Than replied . You know its seems to be to far north. . My wife just a few moments ago saying to me , It a beutiful sunny shinny morning . I said yes it is. Notice anything else . She replies no. I said how about its location . She replied it does seem to be to far north . I can tell ya . I have lived in this same exact place my entire life . Not one degree of movement from my perspective. Yet I can tell ya Suns to far N. ON june 21 its the farthest N it moves . Never has it been more than a couple of degrees N of where I live on the 21 june. Its way past that point already.

 

[shocksyde]

I made it into work just as it was starting. Thank God I wasn't on the Beltway when it hit. I'm sure traffic was horrible.

As I was going West on the Beltway and hit the Silver Spring area, the sky to the West looked absolutely terrifying.

It's not often we get such strong storms in the morning. I'll bet we get some even better ones in the afternoon when the saucy humidity gets going.

 

[sohcrates]

yeah, woke up in DC at 6:15 due to thunder. Earliest i've been to work in a few months at least...

 

[AmberClad]

Originally posted by: shocksyde
I made it into work just as it was starting. Thank God I wasn't on the Beltway when it hit. I'm sure traffic was horrible.

It was probably worse in that I do the reverse commute, so things were moving fast enough that there was a ton of road spray being kicked up in addition to the downpour. I had my wipers on the fastest setting, which I haven't used in a few years.

Originally posted by: shocksyde
I'll bet we get some even better ones in the afternoon when the saucy humidity gets going.

That's pretty much what I heard, so I'm probably going to end up with my afternoon commute shot to hell too.

 

[Delita]

Yeah I woke up to some really loud thunder and the lightening was crazy. For a while there was no rain then it just came down. Pretty cool little storm.

 

[Jeeebus]

Originally posted by: Sea Moose

Originally posted by: purbeast0
there are some really weird storms going on right now. it woke me and my wife up. there has been like a CONSTANT thunder for the past 15 minutes, really heavy rain on/off, and some loud booms here and there! i can't go back to sleep cause its so loud lol.

Its the rapture, pray to your god, repent your sins, hail jeebus

I am here for you, my son.

That said, it was quite the storm. Woke up Mr. and Mrs. Jeeebus around 6am, though baby Jeeebus slept soundly through it.

 

[AmberClad]

Hmm, looks kind of ominous, yet cool at the same time.

 

[Sea Moose]

Originally posted by: Jeeebus

Originally posted by: Sea Moose

Originally posted by: purbeast0
there are some really weird storms going on right now. it woke me and my wife up. there has been like a CONSTANT thunder for the past 15 minutes, really heavy rain on/off, and some loud booms here and there! i can't go back to sleep cause its so loud lol.

Its the rapture, pray to your god, repent your sins, hail jeebus

I am here for you, my son.

That said, it was quite the storm. Woke up Mr. and Mrs. Jeeebus around 6am, though baby Jeeebus slept soundly through it.

well played salesman

 

[purbeast0]

that was the strangest storm i have ever witness. it was like a constant thunder for 45 minutes straight. and i dont mean on and off, i mean like a CONSTANT rumble for at least 45 minutes in a row with the loudest thunder i've ever heard between. there wasn't very much lightning which was weird. it down poured like 2x around me, hardest rain i've seen in a very long time.

i'm just glad i could eventually fall back asleep through all of it heh, but i still feel like zombie at work.

 

[MiniDoom]

that was crazy! woke up at like 5:00am to thunder, no rain. it seemed like the storm went around us. A lot of lightning and thunder close by, maybe a mile or two but no rain. I could see it off in the distance.

 

[Fenixgoon]

philly got amassive thunderstorm for an hour. lightning struck relatively nearby my house - it set off some car alarms