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neadods ([personal profile] neadods) wrote2011-09-28 10:19 pm

o.O >.< O.O

Before I say anything else, everything important is dry and safe and whole. This isn't, fortunately, yet another entry in the Perils of Pauline knockoff my life has become.

That said? Some intense thunderstoms rolled through here about an hour ago, and we heard something go ZORCH! in the back yard. Mo said she smelled burning wood. (I haven't smelled anything in about a week.) As I could see the garage still standing, I decided not to worry until the rain passed... after all, it's been so wet for weeks that you could use a truckful of gas and a flamethrower and still not get anything out there to seriously catch fire.

When there was a lull, I went out and found a blasted branch. Not blasted as in "oh darn that branch!" Blasted as in lightening blew it the fuck up like a particularly enthusiastic episode of Mythbusters. There's oak shrapnel spread for about 8-10 feet and about 1/4 - lengthwise! - of a 5-foot section.

[identity profile] fabricdragon.livejournal.com 2011-09-29 02:26 am (UTC)(link)
aaaand you can now sell those pieces of wood to any number of enthusiastic pagans.
glad you gusy are safe

[identity profile] fabricdragon.livejournal.com 2011-09-30 03:22 am (UTC)(link)
while i personally have lightning stfuck wood a plenty.. i happen to have a friend and mentor who does not.. and would LOVE some. i could arrange to be the go between if you like!
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[personal profile] lagilman 2011-09-29 02:28 am (UTC)(link)
Old Man Oak got blasted so your car wouldn't....

glad all's well.

[identity profile] songfire3.livejournal.com 2011-09-29 03:54 am (UTC)(link)
OMGs, glad to hear you're safe!

And if you have a wood stove, that shrapnel will come in handy in winter! Or you could sell it! :)

[identity profile] starmalachite.livejournal.com 2011-09-29 04:36 am (UTC)(link)
You too? My parents in central PA called earlier to report that they had a lightning strike right outside their kitchen window; no damage except to a patch of grass. And the giant oak tree just down the road from them lost 3 limbs.

ext_3965: (6 with umbrella and TARDIS)

[identity profile] persiflage-1.livejournal.com 2011-09-29 05:22 am (UTC)(link)
Wow!

Glad you're all okay!

[identity profile] gonzai55.livejournal.com 2011-09-29 01:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Meep!

A tree a couple houses up from us was zapped last night. I kept waiting for one of ours to get hit.

Enough already with the rain & storms, yes?

[identity profile] redpanda13.livejournal.com 2011-09-29 04:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Maybe that explains the kaboom that made K say he was going to be under the bed with the cats. Glad you're okay.

Hey, our power stayed on! Twitched a few times, though. I almost felt like calling Pepco even before it went out, just to get a head start.

[identity profile] neadods.livejournal.com 2011-09-29 05:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Oddly, considering that we had lightening go to ground barely 10 feet from the house, our power didn't even flicker.

[identity profile] honorh.livejournal.com 2011-09-29 04:39 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeep! Glad you weren't outside.

P.S. It's "lightning" without the e in the middle. "Lightening" is a separate word entirely, e.g. "As dawn approached, the sky outside was lightening."

/English teacher

[identity profile] neadods.livejournal.com 2011-09-29 05:40 pm (UTC)(link)
;P At least I have the virtue of consistency!

M was standing on the porch soon after the strike trying to see what had happened, and there was another strike in the neighborhood. Which made us run faster for shelter than the cats!