Thunder and Lightning

[Parked4everuser]

I'm sitting through a nice round of lots of lightning sheets and forks here in Kanata (Ottawa). Hailed for a few seconds! Now its just back to some lightning flashes. The temperature was about 30 or so with the humidex just a couple of hours ago, so it isn't too surprising.

 

[condor888000]

Very true. Coming home from work around 9, I was seeing the sky lighting up like crazy near Place. Most of it looked like it was going cloud to cloud though. Only a few seemed to be coming down. And at the moment I hear it coming down. Fun eh.

 

[Mike Bobbitt]

Rice, they actually said the temp was 43 with the humidex yesterday... Hopefully that storm will make today a bit more pleasant!

 

[Springroll]

Watching the news last night(which is a rare occurence for me), I see that Sudbury and a few surrounding towns were hit by some interesting weather. Looked like it did quite the number to alot of those neighbourhoods. I don't recall them saying if anyone was hurt, but I hope nobody was.

 

[Trooper Hale]

Just got the power back on in Pet a little while ago. It was a HUGE, HUGE storm last night. Absolutely beautiful stuff as the thunder and lightning crashed down. Great fun. Not of course if your car was under a tree that crashed down but as i dont own a car i was watching the lightning as opposed to the car park. Far better view.
"Good for the farmers' as we say back home. And good for the RP (you know who you are!) who got chased out of the building by a bat, now that was a good laugh.

 

[Franko]

Me and the frau were going to DDH to workout last night....everything was alright...couple of spots of rain.

As I was just getting into my car last night to move it over to get the frau....literally across the parking lot, the wind picked up.

It was rocking the car...kicking up dirt. My wife was trying to get a grip of the BBQ, I ran to help her.

She ran inside....I heard a crack and a thud.

Looked over and  saw this (see attached photos)

Wife was freaking....our spot is right of the crushed Neon.

Brand new Caliber.........we were lucky.

There are a few buildings on base with the roofs completely torn off. One guy in my Sqn had his roof to his house ripped off in Pembroke.

From what I hear the North Bay area got hit even worse.

Regards

 

[Mike Bobbitt]

Looks like it's time to kick this thread off for another year. I'm sitting here listening to a thunder storm roll through. No signs of a power problem yet, but they don't always warn you in advance.

 

[George Wallace]

Is this something like a "30 Minute WARNING" to let us prepare for the eventuality that your power backup will soon run down?

 

[Bruce Monkhouse]

I've been knocked off twice already...

 

[PMedMoe]

I'm waiting for it here in Borden.  We hit 20C today and it's supposed to drop down to 5C tonight.

 

[Mike Bobbitt]

January 7th, and... yep, thunder and lightning here in Ottawa. Nothing too serious though so I doubt it will cause an interruption.

 

[PMedMoe]

Calling for it here in Kingston later tonight.

 

[navymich]

Calling for it here in Kingston later tonight.

I thought it was just a plane taking off (you get used to living near to the airport!), but realized it was the thunder starting here.  Weird to hear it in the middle of winter.  On a side note, the mild temps today gave me a chance to get all of my outdoor XMas decorations down!!

 

[deedster]

We hit 14 degrees here today.  LOW of 10 tonight.  No thunder here in Burlington yet.  Is it really Jan. 7th?

 

[X-mo-1979]

No thunder in Petawawa yet.really foggy and my drive way is finally clear of ice.
My "skate" home from the gym I got drenched.

Keep it coming I LOVE GLOBAL warming.

(Any one watch that Al Gore special about everything drying up?Looked to me that Ontario was safe. ;D)

 

[midget-boyd91]

January 7th, and... yep, thunder and lightning here in Ottawa. Nothing too serious though so I doubt it will cause an interruption.

Has your new backup (or whatever its technical name is) been used in an actual outage yet?

Love the temperatures here too. But I don't imagine the back yard skating rink I started making is going to survive the 9 and 12 degree weather of the next two days.  :-\
Oh well, I don't skate anyways. I'll sacrifice the rink for nice back deck w/beer weather anytime.

 

[Mike Bobbitt]

Yes, the UPS was put to successful use a few times now. It works!