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Our Perfect Sunday

dulwich — Mon, 17 Aug 2020 01:08:45 GMT

Yesterday our temp hit 104 go to bed woken by huge electric storm, thunder, lightning, gale force winds at 2,30 a.m. then ping out goes all the power. Sweltering hot, raging storm- where’s the flashlight.

Up most of the night - trees down everywhere on main roads. Today temp again in low 100’s still no power- hooray after 15 hours we have power restored 30 mins ago. All is well (I hope).

Another perfect day ending lol but we have been warned due to heat to expect rolling blackouts but did not expect such a scarey storm.

Re: Our Perfect Sunday

MoonieBaby — Mon, 17 Aug 2020 01:10:46 GMT

@dulwich

AS LONG AS YOU ARE INTACT AND OKAY - that is ALL THAT MATTERS.

Be safe, and out of harms way.

Re: Our Perfect Sunday

Linmo — Mon, 17 Aug 2020 01:18:04 GMT

@dulwichThe thunder and lightning was definitely frightening. We didn't lose power, but our elderly dog was very scared this morning. I read there were a few small fires down your way from the lightning. We had one in our area, but it was put out pretty quickly. Stay safe (and hydrated)!

Re: Our Perfect Sunday

SharkE — Mon, 17 Aug 2020 01:23:49 GMT

Sat. we lost internet and cable tv due to some idiot cutting thru the ISP's

fiber optic cable. It was out for 8 hrs. No TV or internet. Yikes !

Re: Our Perfect Sunday

jannabelle1 — Mon, 17 Aug 2020 01:27:58 GMT

Thankfully you are safe and survived the storm, but it is just horrible to go without electricity for that long. Hoping you have some calmer and cooler weather.

Re: Our Perfect Sunday

Pearlee — Mon, 17 Aug 2020 01:37:49 GMT

@dulwich. OY! As if living though a pandemic wasn't enough.... I'm glad things are better now, even though rolling blackouts don't sound good.
I wonder sometimes whether you regret your fairly recent move to CA.

Re: Our Perfect Sunday

dulwich — Mon, 17 Aug 2020 01:38:00 GMT

@Linmo Did you lose power?

I know ours was due to cables down from falling trees. The scariest was the wind- I have never heard sound like it - this is what woke me up sounded like a train coming into our bedroom - then realized it was the wind.

Our dogs were o.k. Just very hot and panting. What a night! but we are all o.k. and still hot!

Re: Our Perfect Sunday

haddon9 — Mon, 17 Aug 2020 01:39:07 GMT

Thank goodness you're all okay and got your power back!

It's awful when the power goes out and you just don't know when it will come back on. It's happened 2x so far this summer but it was out only for an hour or so.

The weather was pretty hot & humid last week but today it was cool...in the mid 70s here in southeastern PA.

Re: Our Perfect Sunday

MamaWick — Mon, 17 Aug 2020 01:54:05 GMT

Happy to hear you're okay.

Re: Our Perfect Sunday

alicedee — Mon, 17 Aug 2020 01:56:35 GMT

@dulwich Glad you are ok. Those violent storms are so scary...and at night you can't see what is happening, just hear the noise!

Re: Our Perfect Sunday

dulwich — Mon, 17 Aug 2020 02:17:33 GMT

Thank you for all your kind words.

Just had ‘update’ red flag warning issued for our area to expect more winds/ storms tonight through 11 a.m. tomorrow. Just hope we keep our power.

Re: Our Perfect Sunday

QVCkitty1 — Mon, 17 Aug 2020 02:29:09 GMT

@dulwich wrote:
Yesterday our temp hit 104 go to bed woken by huge electric storm, thunder, lightning, gale force winds at 2,30 a.m. then ping out goes all the power. Sweltering hot, raging storm- where’s the flashlight.

Up most of the night - trees down everywhere on main roads. Today temp again in low 100’s still no power- hooray after 15 hours we have power restored 30 mins ago. All is well (I hope).

Another perfect day ending lol but we have been warned due to heat to expect rolling blackouts but did not expect such a scarey storm.

That sounds horrible, glad your power is back on.

Re: Our Perfect Sunday

Linmo — Mon, 17 Aug 2020 03:29:50 GMT

@dulwich wrote:
@Linmo Did you lose power?

I know ours was due to cables down from falling trees. The scariest was the wind- I have never heard sound like it - this is what woke me up sounded like a train coming into our bedroom - then realized it was the wind.

Our dogs were o.k. Just very hot and panting. What a night! but we are all o.k. and still hot!

@dulwich Fortunately, we didn't lose power. Our lines were moved underground several years ago. Prior to that, we had outages every summer. I had heard that it was going to be a dry lightning storm so was surprised to see that it had rained so much during the night. Here's hoping that we all sleep better tonight!

Re: Our Perfect Sunday

Oznell — Mon, 17 Aug 2020 11:36:19 GMT

Here's hoping your power holds, @dulwich -- stay safe!

Re: Our Perfect Sunday

qualitygal — Mon, 17 Aug 2020 11:44:15 GMT

WEll, I'm glad you're ok, and hope that today is better.

Re: Our Perfect Sunday

AuntG — Mon, 17 Aug 2020 15:02:58 GMT

Hot weather sure brings on bad storms.

Re: Our Perfect Sunday

elated — Mon, 17 Aug 2020 15:11:48 GMT

Our internet and TV were out on Sunday for about 5 hours. I have Comcast/Infinity. At least, I could reach customer service and get my questions answered. I received a credit for one day for the outage.

Re: Our Perfect Sunday

Nataliesgramma — Mon, 17 Aug 2020 15:18:37 GMT

I hate storms like that at night...especially if the electric goes out!

Re: Our Perfect Sunday

beckyb1012 — Mon, 17 Aug 2020 15:26:38 GMT

That was my perfect Sunday here in East Texas yesterday. Triple digits for days now (not heat index but temp.s) and that storm last night was horrific sounding. Did not loose power thank goodness. Stay safe.

Re: Our Perfect Sunday

dooBdoo — Mon, 17 Aug 2020 15:47:57 GMT

Oooo. I'm sorry, for those of you who experienced storms and also those without power or other services. Hoping everyone is okay. Be safe and well, everyone.❤️