Lightening hit my back yard
Member
Thread Starter
Join Date: May 2007
Location: Littleton, Co.
Posts: 3,317
Lightening hit my back yard
Were all okay but it, but I have never heard 5 guys over the age of 15 scream like girls all at once before.
It happened Saturday afternoon as I was peeling potatoes and looking out the back window and suddenly there was a flash of light so bright and an explosion. I saw sparks fly out of our electrical box - I was so scared.
It blew up our computer, and we still don't have phone service back.
Anyway - thats what Ive been up to, and you?
It happened Saturday afternoon as I was peeling potatoes and looking out the back window and suddenly there was a flash of light so bright and an explosion. I saw sparks fly out of our electrical box - I was so scared.
It blew up our computer, and we still don't have phone service back.
Anyway - thats what Ive been up to, and you?
bona fido dog-lover
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: SF Bay area, CA
Posts: 99,776
I am very glad no one was hurt. Things can be replaced, people can't. I am glad you are alright. Stuff like that is scary, to see how much force Nature really has. I was underneath a tornado once and will never forget it.
I am very glad you and your family are all safe.
:ghug
I am very glad you and your family are all safe.
:ghug
Awaiting Email Confirmation
Join Date: Jul 2008
Posts: 482
Wow! That's amazing - I am scared of lightning and thunder (although I love to watch storms I don't want them getting too close!)
Very glad you and your family are ok! That's certainly not something you'll see everyday!
Very glad you and your family are ok! That's certainly not something you'll see everyday!
Certified Scrabble Cheat!
Join Date: May 2008
Location: The Hill City, MS
Posts: 316
Hey Toomuch. Nothing like a bunch of teenage boys hopping aroung and screeming like Tiny Tim! So glad that all of you are OK. At least they can still sing and you can still peel potatoes.
You asked what we've been up to. Yesyerday, I had an open house for my new bistro. The gig started at 4:00pm. At 3:48pm a leg on my glasses broke and I had had to cook/showcase my food and hobnob wearing my script sunglasses. Gave a new meaning to Daddio.
You asked what we've been up to. Yesyerday, I had an open house for my new bistro. The gig started at 4:00pm. At 3:48pm a leg on my glasses broke and I had had to cook/showcase my food and hobnob wearing my script sunglasses. Gave a new meaning to Daddio.
Looking For Myself...Sober
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Where the heart is
Posts: 10,209
Glad your all ok.
That happened to us in Tamps when I was younger..We were at dinner at a retaurant and had to leave cause 2 tornados had lew through not too far away and knock all the power out. Free drinks we had and apps we had.
Tried to get a frozrn pizza but the power was off at the house. My grams goes to walk out the back sliding glass door and ...BANG!!! Lightning hit the transformer at the back of the backyard. Little fire went out by itself. But it was scary.
Lightining hit my aunts backyard last year. Another little fire. Went out I guess.
What is it with back yards?
That happened to us in Tamps when I was younger..We were at dinner at a retaurant and had to leave cause 2 tornados had lew through not too far away and knock all the power out. Free drinks we had and apps we had.
Tried to get a frozrn pizza but the power was off at the house. My grams goes to walk out the back sliding glass door and ...BANG!!! Lightning hit the transformer at the back of the backyard. Little fire went out by itself. But it was scary.
Lightining hit my aunts backyard last year. Another little fire. Went out I guess.
What is it with back yards?
Member
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Yokohama, Japan
Posts: 487
Last week I was on a dinner cruise in Fukuoka (on Kyushu island--where Nagasaki is) and there was a fireworks show coming from the coast of the bay. Directly to the right of the fireworks was a thunderstorm, so it was actually kinda cool to watch two "shows" for the price of one--luckily at a distance.
Glad nobody was hurt.
Glad nobody was hurt.
Member
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Yokohama, Japan
Posts: 487
Originally Posted by chiynita 
LMAO!! I'm sorry..WHERE??!! were you cruisin at?
Member
Thread Starter
Join Date: May 2007
Location: Littleton, Co.
Posts: 3,317
Originally Posted by Jules62
We've had terrible thunderstorms here lately-with lightning.Very scary and not fun.
I'm sorry-especially about your computer!That sucks!
Glad you found a way to still post though.It's a lifeline here.
Julesxox
I'm sorry-especially about your computer!That sucks!
Glad you found a way to still post though.It's a lifeline here.
Julesxox
I'm not a computer tech, by a long shot.
Member
Join Date: Mar 2008
Location: md
Posts: 3,042
Yep, as I told you all, about 6 weeks ago, the giant tree behind my parents house was knocked into their bedroom in a thunder storm. Very scary indeed.
They are now in a rental house until the work is completed. It will take about a year to restore their home. It was upsetting for them at first, but now they laugh about how they cheated death by my Mom being away on business so that my Dad couldn't sleep and was in the other room on his computer. Thank God.
These types of events show us that we just don't know what will happen or if tomorrow will come, so we have to let people know we love them today!
KJ:praying
They are now in a rental house until the work is completed. It will take about a year to restore their home. It was upsetting for them at first, but now they laugh about how they cheated death by my Mom being away on business so that my Dad couldn't sleep and was in the other room on his computer. Thank God.
These types of events show us that we just don't know what will happen or if tomorrow will come, so we have to let people know we love them today!
KJ:praying
Member
Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: 49 degrees north
Posts: 1,036
Suz
Thunderstorms are rare here, but when they happen, fear commences.
I am at the base of granite cliffs; my property borders tens of thousands of acres of National Forest.
One night, while in bed, a lightening storm focused its' might in my backyard. Strike after strike, the cliffs amplifying the sound tenfold. 100 foot tall trees wee exploding in fireballs, incinerated. It gave me a sense of what it might be like to be in a mortar attack.
I love the fury of nature. But that night I didn't scream, I cried. I just wanted it to stop. Acrid smoke filled our lungs and we didn't know if we would soon be engulfed in an inferno.
Lightning is no joke. If one ever needed a metaphor for "that which we cannot control," watching 100 year old trees reduced to smoldering toothpicks sure does it for me.
So glad you are safe.
warren
Thunderstorms are rare here, but when they happen, fear commences.
I am at the base of granite cliffs; my property borders tens of thousands of acres of National Forest.
One night, while in bed, a lightening storm focused its' might in my backyard. Strike after strike, the cliffs amplifying the sound tenfold. 100 foot tall trees wee exploding in fireballs, incinerated. It gave me a sense of what it might be like to be in a mortar attack.
I love the fury of nature. But that night I didn't scream, I cried. I just wanted it to stop. Acrid smoke filled our lungs and we didn't know if we would soon be engulfed in an inferno.
Lightning is no joke. If one ever needed a metaphor for "that which we cannot control," watching 100 year old trees reduced to smoldering toothpicks sure does it for me.
So glad you are safe.
warren
Currently Active Users Viewing this Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests)
