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Thread: Thunderstorms= Wicked Sick!

  1. 06-19-2006, 03:02 PM #1
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    Thunderstorms= Wicked Sick!

    I love thunderstorms! We are getting hammered by one right now in VT. There is nothing quite like the FLASH-Crack-Ruuuuuummmbbbbbllllee of nearby strike.

    I can't see more that a couple hundred yards in front of me and the rain is coming down in buckets. I hope it hails like they say it might.

    .......Of course my dog is whimpering underneath my chair.
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    does anyone know whatever happened to wickedsick and his one armed date?
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    Who in the hell ever hopes for hail? Everytime there is a storm here, I say in my head "please don't hail, please don't hail!" Have you seen what hail can do to cars? Yeah, I don't own a garage!
    "Can't vouch for him, though he seems normal via email."
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    You know you are supposed to turn your electronics (like computers) off in an electrical (or thunder) storm.
    I'm in a band. It's called "Just the Tip."
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    Actually had a modem blow up due to a lightning strike, way back when.

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    Do you realize that you've just posted an admission of ignorance so breathtaking that it disqualifies you from commenting on any political or economic threads from here on out?
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    Quote Originally Posted by PaSucks
    You know you are supposed to turn your electronics (like computers) off in an electrical (or thunder) storm.
    I thought you were supposed to go outside dressed as a pirate waving a metal sword around.

    No?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Below Zero
    I thought you were supposed to go outside dressed as a pirate waving a metal sword around.

    No?
    You could make a sick pirate hat out of aluminum foil.
    Your dog just ate an avocado!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Below Zero
    I thought you were supposed to go outside dressed as a pirate waving a metal sword around.

    No?
    Obviously you do that after you turn off your computer. If you have no pirate outfit you can fill your bathtub and sit in it.
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    actually, you are supposed to go out on the lake, blubird....just ask aaron



    now get out there!
    If it weren't for serendipity, there'd be no dipity at all
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    I do have a garage, and a laptop with a wireless router. So the worst that can happen is I fry a router and modem, both of which are easily replaceable. Thanks for the heads up though.

    I personally enjoy praticing my golf swing during a storm. It helps the concentration.
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    Quote Originally Posted by train07
    just ask aaron
    I feel like I am supposed to know what that means. I think the bulk of the storm was north of me. How was it up in Rutvegas.
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    We lost a router, a modem, and a TV to lightning. It came through the cable, obviously. It was pretty cool.
    I'm in a band. It's called "Just the Tip."
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    I'm right around the corner from you taking care of the animals while the kids are traveling.....aaron and i had an "experience" on star lake.....guess you haven't met yet.
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    Quote Originally Posted by PaSucks
    We lost a router, a modem, and a TV to lightning. It came through the cable, obviously. It was pretty cool.
    Now thats the spirit!
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    Quote Originally Posted by train07
    I'm right around the corner from you taking care of the animals while the kids are traveling.....aaron and i had an "experience" on star lake.....guess you haven't met yet.
    I might have, but I am horrible with names. Sounds like a fun experience. Boats, especially slow boats, storms and water always make for an intersting time.
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    Personally I dig thunderstorms. We just had two rounds of them this PM here. Best I've ever seen were in the Front Range of CO, however. You'd be up kickin' back to tunes at Red Rocks and watch a supercell crawl by a hundred miles east, with fingers of lightning under them and once there was a tornado. Really fucking wild.
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    We just had the same storm roll thru here in NH at about 6:30. No hail bummer.
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    Quote Originally Posted by edg
    Actually had a modem blow up due to a lightning strike, way back when.
    I've lost two TV sets since the advent of cable.

    Yeah that was a good afternoon up here in upstate NY. Working on a big project in Photoshop, saved every 3 minutes.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tippster
    Personally I dig thunderstorms. We just had two rounds of them this PM here. Best I've ever seen were in the Front Range of CO, however. You'd be up kickin' back to tunes at Red Rocks and watch a supercell crawl by a hundred miles east, with fingers of lightning under them and once there was a tornado. Really fucking wild.
    Camping summer 2001 in Co. At night listening to the thunder echo and echo. It was really cool.
    It's 5 o'clock somewhere.
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    Quote Originally Posted by powder11
    does anyone know whatever happened to wickedsick and his one armed date?

    that's right, what was the outcome of that nonsense? lol
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    I usually like them too unless I have to work in/around them......
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    So, my roomie was watching tv during some of the worst thunderstorms to hit the area in recorded history. Yup...lightning hit close by and the TV/VCR combo was fried. My dad wanted it for some reason, so, I brought it down to him. When I get back to school, my roomie asked if I got the movie back. "What movie?" I replied. Well, yup, he was rubbing one out while I was out watching the storm. Now, I'm not sure which part of this story is worse. The fact that I actually did my roomie a favor and asked for it back, or the fact that my dad said "Too bad, that's a good one, consider it finder's keepers?"
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    That is the main thing I miss about Arizona is the daily violent supercell t-storms in the summer.
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    Thunderstorms are amazing. While i was on a vacation at florida, i was at a water park and a really strong storm rolled in. I was under a pavilion, and a bolt of lightning struck the tree 20 ft away from me. i jumped about 4 feet in the air, and it was the loudest noise i've ever heard, and the tree lite on fire.

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