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Post by medibot on Jul 22, 2006 3:11:37 GMT
If any nutters were up at 4am last night they may well have seen the absolutely mental lightning storm i got outside my window, no wind, rain or thunder. Just lightening, utterly surreal... This is insane, amazingly intense bluey/white repeated bursts of light like some sort of multishot camera in the sky. I feel sorry for anybody asleep now as this is fascinating. Apocalyptic thunder claps now but had a good ten minutes of silent lightning. Wicked   |
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Post by frankiegth on Jul 22, 2006 8:02:43 GMT
We had that sound and light show complete with aqua precipitation effect at about two o'clock.
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Post by ambersalamander on Jul 22, 2006 8:10:02 GMT
Woke me up  . Then I couldn't get back to sleep. I was scared and I wanted a hug, even though I know the chances of being struck by lightning are somwhat slim (one in 380,000 I believe, although whether this figure refers to people in general or people who go camping at the top of bare hills is moot). The chances of buildings being struck, however, are a little higher. So I was being a scaredycat and wishing I had a nice person to give me a hug  I have a game that I play with myself during thunderstorms (as long as I'm indoors, preferably in bed). I find that I can tell by the sound of a thunderclap whether lightning has struck something like a building. I make a guess, and then make bets with myself as to whether this is correct. The answer is determined by whether I hear a siren in the next five minutes. ;D I was correct 80% of the time last night, with 2 sirens- that's a beast of a storm there. |
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Post by medibot on Jul 22, 2006 10:47:59 GMT
Aww, didn't think you'd be the type to want a hug in a storm amber No sirens at my end of town but short of the cyclone in Mauritius i sat through once i've never heard such incredibly loud thunderclaps. |
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Post by Col ISIHAC. on Jul 22, 2006 13:03:34 GMT
Missed it.  Was a-sleepin. Did catch some lightning, no obvious precipitation to accompany it mind you, but as I was a-sleepin indoors, this would have been an irrelevance.  |
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Post by frankiegth on Jul 22, 2006 17:58:19 GMT
Had a repeat performance on our visit to Stamford this afternoon. Unfortunately this resulted in the match being abandoned after 35 minutes.
0-0 at the time. No goals, no refund, but did get home early ;D
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Post by Col ISIHAC. on Jul 22, 2006 22:56:43 GMT
Stamford. Top place, Stamford. Had a damn good firkle around for Daniels' house when up there recently, and totally failed to find it. Shame really, as the weather on the day would have precluded waterlogging in any form whatsoever. |
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Post by medibot on Jul 22, 2006 23:13:09 GMT
Have a nice image of the river being in full flow in the middle of a big feck off storm |
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Post by Col ISIHAC. on Jul 22, 2006 23:16:42 GMT
Yeah! Can go with that. Where's Daniels' House??  |
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Post by medibot on Jul 22, 2006 23:21:38 GMT
Is he not dead now?  |
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Post by Col ISIHAC. on Jul 22, 2006 23:26:58 GMT
Don't split hairs you! I have it on the highest authority that the locals still play in his back garden. ;D |
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Post by medibot on Jul 22, 2006 23:34:29 GMT
The highest authority?
Who was that then, Peter Crouch?
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Post by ambersalamander on Jul 22, 2006 23:38:12 GMT
Since when has he been authority?
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Post by medibot on Jul 22, 2006 23:41:31 GMT
He's an authority on being high  |
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Post by Col ISIHAC. on Jul 22, 2006 23:41:55 GMT
Since when has he been authority? Maybe, and I'm only guessing here, he used to be a traffic warden or something. That's a position of power! Big fack-off sized traffo. Authority tends to trot aongside, no? |
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. Then I couldn't get back to sleep. I was scared and I wanted a hug, even though I know the chances of being struck by lightning are somwhat slim (one in 380,000 I believe, although whether this figure refers to people in general or people who go camping at the top of bare hills is moot). The chances of buildings being struck, however, are a little higher. So I was being a scaredycat and wishing I had a nice person to give me a hug 
