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.
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.
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glad you gusy are safe
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glad all's well.
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And if you have a wood stove, that shrapnel will come in handy in winter! Or you could sell it! :)
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Glad you're all okay!
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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?
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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.
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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
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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!