WOW, what a storm!

[-Rooster-]

Just got internet back...power was out for over 8 hours. Had a huge storm rip through. Took the louvers completly off my mustang, dropped a bunch of trees. Almost ripped a hard tonneu cover off my truck. Bunch of hail and crap. We had to shut our store down. Crazy crap

 

http://pressrepublican.com/0100_news/x876811792/Severe-thunderstorm-warning-issued-for-region

[xPUDDYTATx]

we had a massive thunderstorm at work today. the lightning shut down all the drilling rigs in the field. imagine standing on 7000 feet of drill pipe in the ground, a derrick 200 feet in the air, and a huge pocket of natural gas under you. its just a gigantic lightning rod, lol.

[-Rooster-]

yeah, wouldnt want to be doing that LOL! Id go home for a bit hahah.

[Crusty_Demons]

Wow I have seen what hail damage does to cars it's not pretty.

[o-BacklasH-o]

We had a monsoon-like storm roll through here late last night and early this morning. Everybody in the area took in water as EVERYTHING flooded. We got over a half a foot of rain in a very short period. The streets looked like rivers and when someone drove by it actually made wakes that went up to the top of the drive. My man cave has been temporarily relocated until the carpet is dried/cleaned. I haven't slept much, being the plumber in the family isn't good for this situation. The phone hasn't stopped ringing with people asking for assitance or pumps to get the water out. Luckily we only had seepage, but other people had full out sewage back up in excess of 2-5 feet.

[-Rooster-]

crazy crap isnt it! Good luck with the poop....I just need to get the chainsaw out a couple more times and all will be set

[o-BacklasH-o]

crazy crap isnt it! Good luck with the poop....I just need to get the chainsaw out a couple more times and all will be set

 

We didn't get any of the sewage thank God.

[Neoblackhound]

Wow what a hell of one, I had a friend who's she'd was destroyed cuz of it, I'm glad they are ok.

[TOW-19]

We had some pretty crazy winds and lightning storms all night Friday night.

Not sure what he total aftermath was..........but there was a tree fallen across the lakefront path that I bike along the next morning.

It was a stressful thing because I was presented with the choice of going around it to the left, where I would have to navigate between a few of the tree's leaves and the fence...or I could opt for the right where it would be wide open atop the grass, but other bikes and walkers and runners were streaming together.

Going over it was not an option as the tree was too massive.

I could have turned around as well, but I had already biked two miles and was not ready to quit prior to hitting my targeted ten miles.

I was going to go to the left...the side with the fence...but then I noticed the large spiders that fashioned their webs throughout the links of the fence, and I did not want any hangers-on biting my ass mid-ride afterward.

So I went right. I narrowly missed two walkers, a runner, and four bikes and I almost had a head-on collision. Our street smarts saved us at the zero hour.

 

Damn storm....

[o-BacklasH-o]

We didn't get much wind/rain damage in the burbs Tow. Just ridiculous amounts of rain. Oak Park recorded over 7 inches in a 5 hour span. That's pretty much what we got.

[willywonka159]

It was cloudy the last Saturday; in July, too. One hell of a day. I couldn't go to the beach.

[TOW-19]

It was cloudy the last Saturday; in July, too. One hell of a day. I couldn't go to the beach.

 

I was on the beach last Saturday during all that mist and cloud.

Was AWESOME.

Half-expected the dead to start walking out of the lake...

[Prane]

That storm was brutal. Probably the most nerve-wrecking drive home ever.