Anyone Else Get a Rude Awakening Last Night?

[thetrailboss]

Quite a front of thunderstorms rolled through Eastern MA at around midnight...the lightning woke me up and some strikes were really close!

I was admittedly a bit nervous...it poured as well...

Nasty storm that lingered for about 20-30 mins before it finally pushed southwards. The distant lightning kept me up for at least another 30-45 mins...it was that intense. :blink:

 

[hammer]

That was a pretty good one.

Ever since I lost a big pine tree in my back yard to a lightning strike, I get a little nervous when I see bright lightning...

 

[Stephen]

My youngest 2 weren't buying the "God's fireworks" line. My oldest (5) slept through it all.

We were watching the Hell's Kitchen finale on Tivo when the storm rolled through.

-Stephen

 

[Charlie Schuessler]

I enjoy storms like the one rolling through last night...interesting to watch and listen...we need the rain as well...

and it's good for business 8)

 

[bvibert]

It rolled through are area at about 10 or so I think. Very loud and close, lightening and thunder right on top of each other. It only last a few minutes though..

 

[ctenidae]

I slept right through it and was quite surprised by teh size of the puddles when I took the dog out this morning. My wife heard it all, though. A freight train could come through our room and it wouldn't wake me up.

 

[smitty77]

We had one roll in about 10:30, just as we were going to bed. I was hoping it would push to the south so that I woudn't have to get dressed to bring the dog in from her outdoor kennel, but it kept coming. I went outside to find the dog waiting at the kennel gate. I swear she knows when a "big one" is coming. I brought her in through the bulkhead and she plopped down in her crate in my workshop. I headed back up to bed and fell asleep to be awoken 20 minutes later by the loudest crack of thunder I've heard in a long time. Shook the whole house. My wife, who was sleeping in the other room with the little one, calls to me:

Her: "You should go bring the dog in, she's probably scared to death."
Me: "Ah, yeah, I did that 20 minutes ago."
Her: "You did?" [Totally confused]
Me: "Yep, she's in her crate in the shop."
Her: "I didn't even hear you get up."
Me: "You don't say?"

Priceless. And it's usually me that can't be woken with an A-bomb.

Smitty

 

[kickstand]

we got it around midnight. My wife was already asleep but I was still awake. Some pretty bright flashes of lightning.

 

[Greg]

Out here on the Cape it never quite hit us, but I saw a lot of lightening in the distance and the thunder seemed to rumble north of us for some time around 2 AM.

 

[thetrailboss]

Out here on the Cape it never quite hit us, but I saw a lot of lightening in the distance and the thunder seemed to rumble north of us for some time around 2 AM.

Yep, that was the storm kicking our butts. :x

 

[ALLSKIING]

Eastern LI has not had more then a quick rain fall in over 40 days. We are dry.

 

[teachski]

We only had a couple flashes and rumbles about 9:30 or so. I was relieved. Then we had a few more at around 11, but nothing much other than pouring rain, a few distant rumbles and bright flashes. Around 1 there was another little batch. We never really had a close storm, I could hear them all around us though.

We did get quite a bit of rain though.

 

[MichaelJ]

There's an odd effect around here - storms just dissolve and pass either to the north or south. So while I saw some distant flashes through the blinds and certainly heard thunder, it was all several towns south of me, hammering Waltham into Boston.

My power did take a few stumbles, though, and not timed with any lightning flashes I could see. I know this only because I heard the two UPS's clicking as they kicked in and out.

 

[noski]

Thunder Valley

One of the coolest things I experienced when I first moved to the MadRiverValley was thunder. I live at a fairly high altitude and when the thunder booms in storms like that it rolls, and ROLLS, and rolls down the valley. It is awesome. Like a train coming and passing by you then on down the track. Has anyone really heard that?

 

[ctenidae]

I heard that kind of thunder when I was in Arizona during thundersnows. Awesome sound.

 

[thetrailboss]

Re: Thunder Valley

One of the coolest things I experienced when I first moved to the MadRiverValley was thunder. I live at a fairly high altitude and when the thunder booms in storms like that it rolls, and ROLLS, and rolls down the valley. It is awesome. Like a train coming and passing by you then on down the track. Has anyone really heard that?

Yep, at my home in the NEK.

 

[kickstand]

There's an odd effect around here - storms just dissolve and pass either to the north or south. So while I saw some distant flashes through the blinds and certainly heard thunder, it was all several towns south of me, hammering Waltham into Boston.

My power did take a few stumbles, though, and not timed with any lightning flashes I could see. I know this only because I heard the two UPS's clicking as they kicked in and out.

I'm in Stoneham (soon to be Wakefield) and that storm hit us full-on. I was just getting home as it was rolling in. It definintely came in from the west. I watched it come across from behind Jordan's/Home Depot. Don't know how it missed you guys.

 

[thetrailboss]

Well, looks like a ski area suffered some damage as a result of yesterday's storms (read: different system). Thanks to Betsy at NELSAP, I read this article about Cochran's Ski Area, which is a cool little hill I want to check out sometime...it's within sight of I-89 in Richmond, VT. Too bad... ... small non-profit that can't afford such a loss.

 

[bvibert]

That sucks! I hope they are able to recover...

 

[MichaelJ]

Don't know how it missed you guys.

I don't know - it may have just missed to the north (my bedroom faces south). But of all the lightning I saw the thunder was never less than 6 or 7 seconds behind.

Of course, that's only 1-1/2 miles so Stoneham and Waltham could easily be slammed with Burlington missed.