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Summer Thunder Storm

Anonymous032819 — Tue, 27 Jul 2021 11:32:22 GMT

Right now there is a little summer thunderstorm happening where I live ( Northern California).

Not much in the form of rain, just enough to settle any dust.

I've always liked lightning, and the resulting booms of thunder. It's like natures fireworks.

It's mostly sheet lightning, you know, cloud to cloud.

As long as the lightning doesn't start any fires in the tinder box that is California.

Re: Summer Thunder Storm

songbird — Tue, 27 Jul 2021 13:12:20 GMT

@Anonymous032819 We never seem to get little storms. Most of ours are pretty big. The kind where you can't sit out on your porch and watch. Where I live, there is a "stormy" season. Usually between late May to end of July. Storms are usually twice a week. Sometimes more. It reaches it's peak in June. By August, the storm starts to dissipate in frequency. By September, they're usually gone. Summers are very hot and humid. Fall is wonderful around here, but goes by too quickly! I can understand why so many people love Fall!

But storms are good for pollution. Lightning cleanses the air. It always smells great after a storm. Humans might be slobs with environment. Polluting and dirty. But Nature cleans it up.

Re: Summer Thunder Storm

LyndaGee — Tue, 27 Jul 2021 18:41:55 GMT

Sooo many this year. Our pets require a Thunder Buddy, and I feel bad when I'm not home to comfort them.

Re: Summer Thunder Storm

Kachina624 — Tue, 27 Jul 2021 18:51:57 GMT

We're in our monsoon season and have been getting unusually severe flash floods resulting from thunder storms. . We had one last week where water rushed down from the 10,300ft Sandia Mts at the edge of Albuquerque into cement lined arroyos in town. It went from dry to up to 12ft deep in seconds sweeping 3 men away and drowning them. Their bodies were found in a retention pond that empties into the Rio Grande.

Re: Summer Thunder Storm

songbird — Tue, 27 Jul 2021 21:48:00 GMT

@Kachina624 Sounds like the monsoons in Arizona. Though I think their monsoons are over with.

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SilleeMee — Tue, 27 Jul 2021 22:27:22 GMT

Here in the mountains of Colorado there have been some terrible flash floods in areas where there have been wildfires. I heard there were three bodies recovered from one of the floods where they were inside a home when it got washed away. It's terrifying when these flash floods happen in valleys where the water is funneled and it gushes away everything in it's path...it happens so fast so there's no time to escape.

Re: Summer Thunder Storm

Kachina624 — Wed, 28 Jul 2021 00:18:28 GMT

@songbird wrote:
@Kachina624 Sounds like the monsoons in Arizona. Though I think their monsoons are over with.

@songbird Monsoon season continues in both AZ and NM. We had another flash flood in Albuquerque this afternoon with one man missing. I believe Tuscon had one yesterday or the day before. This could continue for the next month, although it's getting old and we're ready for it to end.

Re: Summer Thunder Storm

Luvsmyfam — Wed, 28 Jul 2021 01:44:52 GMT

seems like when it storms in quadcities I loose power.then I freak out,bc it's always dead of summer with high temps

Re: Summer Thunder Storm

patbz — Wed, 28 Jul 2021 03:52:59 GMT

We got 8 inches last weekend ( more than the total for monsoon for last two years). We live at top of a hill, so no flooding issues although there were several warnings for our area of NE AZ.

Re: Summer Thunder Storm

77yangya — Wed, 28 Jul 2021 09:34:35 GMT

@Kachina624 wrote:
We're in our monsoon season and have been getting unusually severe flash floods resulting from thunder storms. . We had one last week where water rushed down from the 10,300ft Sandia Mts at the edge of Albuquerque into cement lined arroyos in town. It went from dry to up to 12ft deep in seconds sweeping 3 men away and drowning them. Their bodies were found in a retention pond that empties into the Rio Grande.

THAT is terrible, seriously. Hope this resolves ASAP.

Re: Summer Thunder Storm

77yangya — Wed, 28 Jul 2021 09:37:44 GMT

@Luvsmyfam wrote:
seems like when it storms in quadcities I loose power.then I freak out,bc it's always dead of summer with high temps

We fear this too. When Hurricane Sandy hit, we had no power for three weeks and I sat in a cold, dark house with the flu. We got a kerosene heater but that's only good for a few hours then you must refuel it. We have no back up power. I sat listening to a radio feeling very alone and without hope until the power just blipped back on at the end. So, I get your point.