Holy crap!
Pardon my English, but that's all I can think to say after the Storm of the Century that hit Chicago yesterday.
The lightening was blinding, the thunder was deafening and the tornado sirens were frightening, but all I could think was, "It's a hurricane! Run for higher ground!" (Or is that for tsunamis? I'm always confused about my natural disasters.)
Mr. Dub had the pleasure of driving us home in middle of the downpour. Let's just say we won't be going to the car wash any time soon as the torrential rain cleaned our car like a dishwasher.
It was scary, it was amazing, it was annoying. Because while it was the worst storm in the history of history, it was about the 23rd storm this month ... and most of them like to hit around 3 a.m. with such force that sleeping is not an option. (Unless you're Miss Dub, thank goodness!)
I mean, Arizona Augusts are always stormy, but at least those clouds are kind enough to finish up before midnight.
Weather can be so rude.
Luckily we never lost power, weren't flooded, didn't get stranded and are, you know, alive. But the forecast calls for rain all day so any of that could change.
Guy!
What's the worst storm you've ever been in?
(This one ties with a huge microburst I saw in Hawaii as a kiddo. The Polynesian Cultural Center never saw it coming!)
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luckily we avoided the worst storm our town has ever seen by, um, evacuating two years ago (14 hour drive to dallas, which is four hours away). we have huge thunderstorms pretty often, though. they're fun and awe-inspiring and everything, and my whole entire family can sleep through them.
except me.
That's a crazy storm! Although, I'm a huge fan of thunderstorms in the summer....even in the middle of the night.
I think the biggest storm I've been in was a couple of summers ago right after I got married. Ryan is from AZ, so he had never experienced an east coast storm. The rain was pounding so hard and so fast that the water in the creek in front of my parents house had overflowed and was creeping up the hill towards the house. The thunder was so loud, that it was actually shaking the house like an earthquake. And at one point lightning struck and it knocked a framed picture off the wall. "Welcome to the east." I said!
yikes. our monsoons have nothing on your crazy storm.
I thought about you this morning when I saw the pictures on the news. Glad everyone is okay!
Can't say I've been in a horrible storm but an earthquake did wake me up when I was living in Cali. That was an unpleasent, rude awakening!
I grew up in Houston and my jr. high got hit with a tornado (think "a wall made of glass" in the gymnasium...we were out of school for a few weeks!) But the WORST was hurricane Alicia in the mid-eighties. We had NO power, our dog had just had puppies, it was hot-humid, miserable and we had to eat EVERYTHING in our refrigerator (cooked on my Dad's coleman camping stove) for 3 days. At least we had water. I would fill up the tub with cold water and just sit there cooling off from the jungle heat.
yikes! it was yucky in NY yesterday, too, but not THAT bad! my worst storm was the "surprise october storm" that hit buffalo last year. fall hadn't even come yet, so all the trees still had leaves. then we got a wicked amount of heavy wet snow. the of course all the trees broke. most of them landed right on power lines & some of my friends were w/o power for 10days! everyones trees still look awful & people are STILL cleaning it up.
I feel so bad . . . I was talking to you on the phone just minutes before you picked up Mr. Dub, and then I went to bed before I saw the news and this morning I haven't read the paper yet and basically . . . YOU are my news source. Could you keep me up to date on all the other news too? It would save me some time.
I am very, very, very, glad you are safe and sound. What did Miss Dub think of the adventure?
once, in WA, my mom and i were driving home in a dust storm and tried to pull over, not being able to see a foot in front of us (and in the middle of no where, might i add) and a semi rear ended us.
we may very well have been in the middle of the road, but the semi wouldn't have known that either.
only scary. doesn't top yours. i wish i was there, though.
Those pictures are amazing. Even though storms can be loud and scary, there is something beautiful and magnificient about them. Glad you are alright.
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Growing up in the midwest and south made for lots of fun, scary nights with the candles lit and the radio on. Some of my favorite memories as a kid! I love the thrill of a storm, counting the seconds between the lightning and the thunder, hearing the wind blow so loud it sounds like your house is going to fall down, and hearing the lightning hit the trees. Bring it on mother nature...I even like earthquakes!
I feel like I've said this before, the gnarliest storms I've seen were in Tulsa, tornado warnings and all.
I don't know if it was the worst storm ever ... but I was in a DOOZIE of a lightening storm on Saturday night coming back to DC from the Eastern Shore of Maryland. The real climax of the storm came when I had to drive over a 3 mile suspension bridge (aka The Bay Bridge Lightening Rod) with about 400 other nervous drivers. It wasn't too bad, surprisingly, since most of the truly lilly-livered among us had pulled off the road before getting onto the bridge.
I'll tell you, if someone had decided to stop on that bridge I would have come UNGLUED. But all was well. And all that lightening reflecting off of all that water below, well it was one HECKUVA show!
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