Thunderstorms: How I missed thee

[Peacemaker]

Im out on the back pourch right now, listening to the thunder and watching the lightning. I love it. So relaxing. So cool. I missed this part of summer.

[Rbstr]

That's the main thing I hate about the dorms. I can't get a good view of a storm or hear the thunder in my room.

[Peacemaker]

Like I said, Im just sitting out here on the back pourch. Its rolling NE but I live up ontop of a hill and it gets alot of strikes. -_- Work is gonna suck tho.

[Sentrosi]

Yeah. I heard them last night roll through Albany. I've always thought that thunderstorms bring everything back into focus for me. That I am just a very insignificant ant in this anthill we call Earth. At anytime someone who's running the place can thrown down the magnifying glass and *POOF* instant crunchy human.

I used to live on a hill that I could see three different counties back home. Back in the middle 90's there was a huge storm brewing in the middle part of Wisconsin. It produced an F5 tornado and I got to see it all develop. An F5 is what destroyed that town in Kansas a couple of weeks ago. I'd love to be a stormchaser. I wonder how one gets to become one?

Pics of the Oakfield, WI storm. July 18. 1996

Stormchaser pics (http://www.tornadoproject.com/past/oakfotos.htm)

Aerial pics from a day and a half later (http://www.tornadoproject.com/past/oakdam.htm)

[Knightwyvern]

Yea we caught a good part of the storm here in Rochester as well. I also find thunderstorms to be very relaxing. I love when a huge, incredibly bright lighting strike happens right in front of you, and everything is as bright as day for a half second followed by a huge resounding bass roll of thunder. It's so cool. I always wonder to myself (very non-scientifically) how such a quick occurrence such as a lighting strike can make such a long drawn-out noise.

Mother nature at her best.

[Kyonye]

Very few reasons I like the summer time:
1) Girls in small clothing
2) Outdoor paintball
3) Lightning Storms
4) HVAC labor is busier during the summer time

Sometimes it can be in this order, and sometimes not.

[Hamma]

:lol:

Had quite a few storms here this afternoon, love them as well.

Mother Nature has some killer subwoofers :D

[Kyonye]

:lol:

Had quite a few storms here this afternoon, love them as well.

Mother Nature has some killer subwoofers :D

Best in the industry, I heard.

[Peacemaker]

Ill bet you did hear.

[Infernus]

Yeah... Thunderstorms rock. We had one last night, almost rained out the baseball game (didn't, luckily). It made everything like 10x cooler, which was especially nice considering how hot it was.

I love just laying around reading, getting the smell of the fresh rain and listening to the roll of the thunder. There's just something about it that reminds me of summer.

[Knightwyvern]

I love just laying around reading, getting the smell of the fresh rain and listening to the roll of the thunder. There's just something about it that reminds me of summer.

QFT

[Rbstr]

Storms aren't so much a summer reminder for me, more of a reminder of nature and my smallness.

The best storms have been while I'm canoeing or backpacking. You've got a couple millimeters of fabric and some tiny aluminum poles - if that - between you and nature. Up just beyond the tree line on a mountain. It's both exhilarating and very scary at the same time.

[Knightwyvern]

Yea Rob also quite true. I remember a canoeing trip I took to Canada several years back with Electro and our cousins and holy damn... one night in particular it started to really pour and we actually had to move our tents to higher ground because the water level was rising to much. Mind you, we were canoeing in a relatively large system of lakes and connecting rivers. This storm actually brought the water level up by about 4 inches in one night... one of the craziest things I can remember about my childhood was watching the pea-sized raindrops falling in a seemingly solid sheet of water for about 8 hours straight.

Well technically I guess we were portaging.

[Peacemaker]

Knight ya should come hiking with me up in the 'rondaks. Im set to enjoy the summer this year!

[Rbstr]

Knight I'm going on a boundary waters trip later this summer.

I love that area, I'd love to live there year round if it weren't for the mosquitoes.

[Baneblade]

I hate sun.

[Peacemaker]

The feeling is mutual Im sure.