Saw a weird and scary-looking cloud yesterday... (pics)

Electrode

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Last evening I was outside looking at our exotic birds (a bunch of chickens, ducks, some phesants and peafowl) when I looked up and saw this rather nasty looking cloud. It was a long string that was rotating and distorting the clouds above it.

Pics, from north to west:
1 2 3

Anyone mind telling me what this thing was?

Also, here's a photoshopped to death wallpaper-suitable version of the first pic for your viewing pleasure.
 

Eli

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Neat.

Reminds me of the nexus-ribbon thing in the Star Trek the next Generation movie.
 

Electrode

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I'm hosting it off of my own fileserver. If you can think of a better place I'd like to hear it.
 

Originally posted by: Electrode
I'm hosting it off of my own fileserver. If you can think of a better place I'd like to hear it.
Notfred's pichosting service, pics.bbzzdd.com, entity's service, any other place.

Looks to me like a wall cloud - a precursor to a tornado.

EDIT: I mean the cloud in the first pic - I don't know what that skinny little cloud is all about. Wall Cloud.
 

Eli

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Originally posted by: Electrode
I'm hosting it off of my own fileserver. If you can think of a better place I'd like to hear it.
There are like half a dozen free pic hosting sites for ATOT........

Besides, don't ISPs give you free space anymore? I get 60megs(total, 6 emails) with Comcast.
 

Electrode

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Originally posted by: Eli
Originally posted by: Electrode
I'm hosting it off of my own fileserver. If you can think of a better place I'd like to hear it.
There are like half a dozen free pic hosting sites for ATOT........

Besides, don't ISPs give you free space anymore? I get 60megs(total, 6 emails) with Comcast.

Charter was supposed to give me 5 megs of space, but never did.
 

Syringer

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Weren't there supposed to be weird clouds forming over the Northeast or something? Although MI is a little far it could be the case..
 

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