Thunderstorms

[MGE]

Does anyone else here find Thunderstorms really relaxing?

(Apart from the really big and powerfull ones, they give me really bad head aches)

Personally, if I'm lay in bed with the windows open, and there is a thunderstorm going on, I'll doze off pretty fast.
(And then have some pretty psychadelic dreams)

I dunno what I find so relaxing about them, perhaps its the sound of Rain hitting leaves / etc with the rumble of thunder in the distance.

All I know is, if theres a Thunderstorm happening, I'm gonna be sleeping soon.

God help me if I take up golf and a thunder storm happens! :lmao

[WazLady]

We had some pretty good storms here in Illinois. We actually just had a minor one with tornado warnings all over the place and a funnel cloud spotted about 15 miles away.

I find them very relaxing. I love to sit on the porch and watch them go. Though when lightenting starts up really bad I will go inside.

Though my dad who always loved storms, mentioned that when your in an apartment 42 floors up and your small stuido apartment one wall is all windows from your knees up, and that lightenting gets going...he said you feel as though your in the middle of it...

:bounce

[MGE]

Originally posted by WazLady

Though my dad who always loved storms, mentioned that when your in an apartment 42 floors up and your small stuido apartment one wall is all windows from your knees up, and that lightenting gets going...he said you feel as though your in the middle of it...

:bounce

Now that sounds TOP!

I used to go storm hunting when I had my car, I managed to find some pretty top ones as well!
There is nothing better than sitting in your car, on a top of a really big hill, chillin out, while a thunder storm is putting on a decent show.

It just can't be beat.

Mind you, if there was even a hint of tornado's, you wouldn't see me for big rubber wheel spin marks, and thick blue, acrid smoke! :rofl2

[WazLady]

Originally posted by MGE
Now that sounds TOP!

I used to go storm hunting when I had my car, I managed to find some pretty top ones as well!
There is nothing better than sitting in your car, on a top of a really big hill, chillin out, while a thunder storm is putting on a decent show.

It just can't be beat.

Mind you, if there was even a hint of tornado's, you wouldn't see me for big rubber wheel spin marks, and thick blue, acrid smoke! :rofl2

LOL! Your a storm chaser at heart!!!!!

:bounce

We don't have many hills around here:( I wish we did. Tons of cornfields though:banana And seeing a storm come across a field as far as the eye can see is neat too:beer

Do you get many storms in the UK???

[MGE]

Originally posted by WazLady
LOL! Your a storm chaser at heart!!!!!

:bounce

We don't have many hills around here:( I wish we did. Tons of cornfields though:banana And seeing a storm come across a field as far as the eye can see is neat too:beer

Do you get many storms in the UK???

We get a few thunder storms now and again, its not very often tho.
Mainly, around Manchester, its rainy most of the time.
Typical Mancunian weather really :Yea right

However, I have never seen Forked lightning, only sheet lightning.

We had a thunderstorm the other day actually, it only lasted about half an hour tho :(
I had a good sleep tho! :KICK ASS

[WazLady]

Forked lightning??? Like when it comes down in bolts?? That is what we get here. Sometimes when I am driving threw a field I see the bolts go threw a storm cloud and it looks like veins plusing. Kind of cool!:bounce :shocking

[MGE]

Originally posted by WazLady
Forked lightning??? Like when it comes down in bolts?? That is what we get here. Sometimes when I am driving threw a field I see the bolts go threw a storm cloud and it looks like veins plusing. Kind of cool!:bounce :shocking

Yeah, now that WOULD be SO COOL to see!
I wish we got forked lightning over here, so far the only time I've seen it, is in films :(

And, the safest place to be is in a car in a lightning storm.
So, its the PERFECT opportunity to go do a bit of lightning spotting! :D

[WazLady]

The first time I saw what I call "Plusing Lightning" was driving 70mph on the interstate and the bolts looked like they were wrapping themselves around this puffy storm cloud. I almost drove off the road!!!! The guy behind me probably thought, "Stupid women drivers!" LOL!

But yes, we get that forked lightning here and sometimes it can get scarey!

I know the car is the safest place to be...but sometimes I wonder!
:bounce

[efernandez_98]

I like thunderstorms, but I don't like the map in UT2k3 that has the indoor flooding and the outside thunderstorms though.

[wazman]

I love thunderstorms. Used to be scared of them, but I'm not any more.

SOmetimes, after what goes on around here, it's nice to go out in one and hope...

[Tivon]

So you like the lightning?

One of my wifes friends died 2 years ago at the beach.
It was only a partly cloudy day and he was struck down
standing just outside the waters edge.:Crying

You don't play around with lightning here in Florida.:Nope

[wazman]

If you knew me, you'd understand.

[WazLady]

Originally posted by Tivon
So you like the lightning?

One of my wifes friends died 2 years ago at the beach.
It was only a partly cloudy day and he was struck down
standing just outside the waters edge.:Crying

You don't play around with lightning here in Florida.:Nope

Wow, that is terrible!

I know how lightning in Flordia can be. My dad, the Storm King was on the beach in Pensocola and my mom ordered him inside and lightning was not to far away off the beach. And it looked like it was hitting the water.

So we watched it via the balconey.:bounce

[egarrard]

It was storming pretty good here in Manchester last Thursday. A really dark sky. It was great just to sit and listen to the rain and the thunder, and smell the storm in the air. I wasn't able to catch any lightning, though.

http://www.cafes.net/egarrard/Files/Storm050103.jpg

[getit29]

Up until a few years ago I didn't mind a thunder storm to much
but after a few close calls with lightning I do not like them any
more. The first time, I was sitting and talking with my Uncle at
his house and lightning struck the tree right outside his door
and it ran in through the screen door right between us and hit
the wall. The second time, I was driving up I-24 going up to
Nashville and lightning hit my car right on the roof and blowed
my cell phone antenna right off of the back window of the car
man was it ever loud made my ears ring. The third time, I was
sitting here at the house and lightning hit the apple tree out in
the back yard and jumped over to the satellite dish and came in
through the wires right into my bedroom. It killed my cordless
phone it never worked again just luckily it didn't get my computer
I had it unplugged. The satellite dish had been hit before so I had
the receiver unhooked and just had the wires hanging there out
in the open I hadn't unhooked them from the dish holly crap come
to think of it I still haven't unhooked them:Holy Crap guess I'll do
that in the morrning just in case!!!

[WazLady]

Originally posted by getit29
Up until a few years ago I didn't mind a thunder storm to much
but after a few close calls with lightning I do not like them any
more. The first time, I was sitting and talking with my Uncle at
his house and lightning struck the tree right outside his door
and it ran in through the screen door right between us and hit
the wall. The second time, I was driving up I-24 going up to
Nashville and lightning hit my car right on the roof and blowed
my cell phone antenna right off of the back window of the car
man was it ever loud made my ears ring. The third time, I was
sitting here at the house and lightning hit the apple tree out in
the back yard and jumped over to the satellite dish and came in
through the wires right into my bedroom. It killed my cordless
phone it never worked again just luckily it didn't get my computer
I had it unplugged. The satellite dish had been hit before so I had
the receiver unhooked and just had the wires hanging there out
in the open I hadn't unhooked them from the dish holly crap come
to think of it I still haven't unhooked them:Holy Crap guess I'll do
that in the morrning just in case!!!

Wow! That is a few close calls with lightning!

When a storm is heading our way, we unplug the computers from the surge supressor AND the internet cable cords from the back of the computer. People still don't realize that yes, lightning still can get past a surge surpressor.

I am glad your ok from all of those close calls! I know TN can get some bad storms as IL can!

[Orangepeel]

The first storms of Spring can be really strong around here :eek!

Same as the ones that come at the end of Summer. I guess it's the temp diffs or something?

Yeah, my fave lighting is always the kind that wraps itself around the cloud, zapping out from one end to the other. The colours that shoot about in the cloud are amazing :).

Storms can get shocking very strong here in Ontario...and once in a while the sky gets so black/green you would think it was night...

[getit29]

Originally posted by WazLady
Wow! That is a few close calls with lightning!

When a storm is heading our way, we unplug the computers from the surge supressor AND the internet cable cords from the back of the computer. People still don't realize that yes, lightning still can get past a surge surpressor.

I am glad your ok from all of those close calls! I know TN can get some bad storms as IL can!

WazLady, I know how bad the storms get up north around where
you live. I used to live in Iowa and we used to get some big,bad,
storms there and also a few tornados that is one reason I moved
back down south. Moved back here and now days it's just about
as bad around here for the big storms and tornados.:Crying

[getit29]

Originally posted by Orangepeel
The first storms of Spring can be really strong around here :eek!

Same as the ones that come at the end of Summer. I guess it's the temp diffs or something?

Yeah, my fave lighting is always the kind that wraps itself around the cloud, zapping out from one end to the other. The colours that shoot about in the cloud are amazing :).

Storms can get shocking very strong here in Ontario...and once in a while the sky gets so black/green you would think it was night...

Yeah I don't like to see the sky get the black/green look it gets
kind of spooky when it gets that way sign of a very big supercell
thunder storm.:Holy Crap

[efernandez_98]

Originally posted by WazLady
People still don't realize that yes, lightning still can get past a surge surpressor. Only the cheap ones. The good ones made by Tripplite (Isobar) and APC (SurgeArrest) will burn out before your computer will.

I remember comming home one raining evening finding the lights off. When the power was restored I realized that I had a dead VCR in the livingroom, a burnt out clock in the kitchen, and a burnt Isobar in the Den. However, I tell you - the computer equipment that was connected to it was just fine.

[Killroy71]

Originally posted by Orangepeel
The first storms of Spring can be really strong around here :eek!

Same as the ones that come at the end of Summer. I guess it's the temp diffs or something?

Yeah, my fave lighting is always the kind that wraps itself around the cloud, zapping out from one end to the other. The colours that shoot about in the cloud are amazing :).

Storms can get shocking very strong here in Ontario...and once in a while the sky gets so black/green you would think it was night...

You should try the spring storms in Okalhoma! Yikes! When you see softball sized hail and eight 'fingers' reaching out of the sky you run! I'm so glad I picked a place with a storm cellar!

Combat Comm!

[egarrard]

We've been getting all kinds of bad weather the past 24 hours. Tornados everywhere. But I did get some lightning pics last night, before the heavy stuff rolled in. Here's your Manchester forked lightning. It came from the right side of the pic and is arcing down. If you look carefully, you can see the ground strike climbing up behind the trees to meet it.

[egarrard]

One more of the lightning. I didn't convert it to grayscale this time because the color is exactly what it was. Purplish.

[west1055]

Wow! that last pic looks spooky. I've seen some bad skies like that before and they normally mean big troubles a coming.

It was a nice light show here too in GA. I was sitting on the couch earlier today when one of these storms was going on and i saw a flash immediatly followed by a huge boom. It was very close lightening strike. Close enough that I felt the shock wave of the thunder actually push against me inside the house! Man that was a wierd feeling.

[MGE]

WOW Egarrard :eek: They are some PHAT storm pictures! :)

I like the light on the first one, sort of gives it a twilight feel to it, and then you have the awsome shot of forked lightning going across the sky. Awesome! :D

The second pic, Really is impressive.
And you say these pics havn't been altered?
I would have LOVED to have seen a storm like that :)

The worst I have seen a thunder storm do over here, is turn the sky slightly grey, no where as near as dark as that storm!
Or as dramatic! :)

I can't see the streamer coming from the ground tho, I will keep looking :)

Great pics tho, thanks for sharing :) :thumb

[JCYC5]

And I thought the weather was bad here yesterday...lol...

Awesome pics though, Egar... :thumb

[Artcwolf]

We get some good ones this time of year in North Texas. Luckily, though, the tornado's past us and went north (bad for those states).

We've had some good, noisey, lightning filled one's this year. :Nice

[MGE]

Originally posted by Artcwolf
We get some good ones this time of year in North Texas. Luckily, though, the tornado's past us and went north (bad for those states).

We've had some good, noisey, lightning filled one's this year. :Nice

I wish we had some better thunderstorms over here :(
I would love to sit in my car, on a big hill, looking out on a thunderstorm, complete with forked lightning :)
That would be awesome! :)

Has anyone seen anything on "Orgone Energy"?
Basically, you can manipualte weather with it.
And its natural energy thats emitted by pretty much anything living.
You just build an "accelerator" to focus it and 'rake' the sky.

However, who else thinks its a bit on the dangerous side to manipulate weather patterns?

[getit29]

Here is a pic of a lightning strike in down town Nashville that was
taken from a skycam

[MGE]

Originally posted by getit29
Here is a pic of a lightning strike in down town Nashville that was
taken from a skycam

Whoa!
What did it strike?

That looks like a large explosion at the impact site! :eek:

[wazman]

Originally posted by MGE
Whoa!
What did it strike?

That looks like a large explosion at the impact site! :eek:

Could be Graceland...

No wait, that's in Memphis...

Ummm...

Grand Ole Opry? :)

[egarrard]

Originally posted by wazman
Could be Graceland...

No wait, that's in Memphis...

Ummm...

Grand Ole Opry? :) Jimmy Swaggart's house.

[getit29]

Originally posted by MGE
Whoa!
What did it strike?

That looks like a large explosion at the impact site! :eek:


Yeah, looks like it made a big spark when it hit best I remember
I think it was a house or something like that or some kind of big
building. I'm just glad I wasn't anywhere close or with my luck
with lightning it would have come after me LOL!! three close calls
with lightning is enough for me :Holy Crap had another close call
last night but not with lightning this time it was with a funnel
cloud during one of the big storms we had here yesterday. I was
trying to get over to my brothers house to get in his basement
and looked back and here came the funnel cloud passed right
over the top of my car and blowed me into the ditch it was lifting
the side of my car up and and pushing me to the right side of the
road. I thought I was a gonner for sure but the bad part was I
just traded for the car yesterday and it blowed something into
the side of it and put a big dent into it:Crying

[WazLady]

Originally posted by getit29
WazLady, I know how bad the storms get up north around where
you live. I used to live in Iowa and we used to get some big,bad,
storms there and also a few tornados that is one reason I moved
back down south. Moved back here and now days it's just about
as bad around here for the big storms and tornados.:Crying

Yes, Iowa can be as bad as Illinois. Tornando's can come out of nowhere up here, just like what hit down in your area this past weekend.

:(

I really feel bad for all the people who lost their loved ones and their homes. I can't imagine losing all of that in a mere 15 seconds.

[tantousha]

Mmmm....Lightening! :devil

We don't get it too often over hear, but when we do it rattles the windows!:eek:

That Purple sky...man oh man...if I saw that coming I'd say it was the apocalypse (no coinsedence with my sig). I think I would become Christian hoping for a rapture....

Nonetheless, lightening is fun...especially with hail and wind...WHEEE!!

[ch0g0nda]

Originally posted by tantousha
Mmmm....Lightening! :devil

We don't get it too often over hear, but when we do it rattles the windows!:eek:

That Purple sky...man oh man...if I saw that coming I'd say it was the apocalypse (no coinsedence with my sig). I think I would become Christian hoping for a rapture....

Nonetheless, lightening is fun...especially with hail and wind...WHEEE!! The only time I can get enough voltage for my CPU to run at 2.1GHz is during a lightning storm. Odd eh?

[tantousha]

Originally posted by Mencius
The only time I can get enough voltage for my CPU to run at 2.1GHz is during a lightning storm. Odd eh?

Must be the extra static floating around in the air...or maybe it's cause you are doing like a Frankenstein operation scene...

/Me envisions Mencius over his computer, it's in black and white, with lightning and thunder

Mencius: MORE POWER!!!

/Mencius raises huge lightning rod wired straight into the mobo...

Computer: *BZZZZZZZT*

3DMark01: 16K Congrats!

Mencius: YAY!


Yeah...static...definitly static, just don't do a computer upgrade during a lightning storm :shocking

[Killroy71]

Originally posted by tantousha
Mmmm....Lightening! :devil

We don't get it too often over hear, but when we do it rattles the windows!:eek:

That Purple sky...man oh man...if I saw that coming I'd say it was the apocalypse (no coinsedence with my sig). I think I would become Christian hoping for a rapture....

Nonetheless, lightening is fun...especially with hail and wind...WHEEE!!

Rattle the windows...hmmm Sounds like what I'm gonna do when I get back home after this long a** deployment! WHOORAAHH!

Combat Comm!

[egarrard]

Of course, with as much rain as we have received in the past 2 days, you'll get some flooding. :(

[egarrard]

http://www.cafes.net/egarrard/Files/House.jpg

[MGE]

Alright, who forgot to turn off the bath???????? :D

Seriously tho, that flooding looks rather harsh! :eek:

I'm just gratefull I don't get flooding where I live at the minute,
I'm lucky if I see more than 4 thunderstorms a year! :(

The rest of the time, its just raining non stop all the time, which is typical Manchester weather really :(

I wish something exciting would happen, nothing as dramatic as a flood, or a hurricane, etc.
But some slightly odd weather would be nice for a change.

[egarrard]

The water seems to be dropping fairly quickly. It was over the top of this bridge this morning.

http://www.cafes.net/egarrard/Files/Bridge.jpg

[wazman]

I used to get flooding all the time at my old house... It was right by the river, and the fools who built houses there didn't anticipate that there might be flooding. I mean, come on - they don't call it "The Flats" for nothing...

So eventually the city bought out all the houses and tore them down. So I got to move from Crap Alley into the house I'm in now... where the sewer backs up... :Sigh

Sigh... I can't win...

[WazLady]

Originally posted by efernandez_98
Only the cheap ones. The good ones made by Tripplite (Isobar) and APC (SurgeArrest) will burn out before your computer will.

I remember comming home one raining evening finding the lights off. When the power was restored I realized that I had a dead VCR in the livingroom, a burnt out clock in the kitchen, and a burnt Isobar in the Den. However, I tell you - the computer equipment that was connected to it was just fine.

I agree with you Efer, but people around here buy el-cheapo surge protectors. So I tell people just to un-plug them just to be safe.

:happywave

[WazLady]

Originally posted by wazman
I used to get flooding all the time at my old house... It was right by the river, and the fools who built houses there didn't anticipate that there might be flooding. I mean, come on - they don't call it "The Flats" for nothing...

So eventually the city bought out all the houses and tore them down. So I got to move from Crap Alley into the house I'm in now... where the sewer backs up... :Sigh

Sigh... I can't win...

And the people that are still there built their houses up on stilts so the water will go UNDER the house.

Strange world we live in...

[getit29]

Here is a pic of some of the damage at the house next door to me
this is from the funnel cloud on Monday the one that almost got
me on the road up from my house. The house down the street
from me has a tree laying across the back of the house but it
didn't do a lot of damage to it though. I had some big limbs off
of the trees laying in my backyard also but luckly no damage to
the house guess we all got lucky it didn't set all the way down
out here or it would have been a lot worse. The picture isn't the
best I just used my webcam to take it with not the best camera
for taking pics with the pic is his car under the tree

[efernandez_98]

Originally posted by getit29
Here is a pic of some of the damage at the house next door to me
this is from the funnel cloud on Monday the one that almost got
me on the road up from my house. The house down the street
from me has a tree laying across the back of the house but it
didn't do a lot of damage to it though. I had some big limbs off
of the trees laying in my backyard also but luckly no damage to
the house guess we all got lucky it didn't set all the way down
out here or it would have been a lot worse. The picture isn't the
best I just used my webcam to take it with not the best camera
for taking pics with the pic is his car under the tree Looks like the tree wanted to take the car out for a spin.

[wazman]

It's the new style in car camoflague...

[egarrard]

Originally posted by getit29
Here is a pic of some of the damage at the house next door to me
this is from the funnel cloud on Monday the one that almost got
me on the road up from my house. The house down the street
from me has a tree laying across the back of the house but it
didn't do a lot of damage to it though. I had some big limbs off
of the trees laying in my backyard also but luckly no damage to
the house guess we all got lucky it didn't set all the way down
out here or it would have been a lot worse. The picture isn't the
best I just used my webcam to take it with not the best camera
for taking pics with the pic is his car under the tree I'm sorry to hear about that. We were lucky this time and missed the tornados and wind. I hope nobody got hurt in all of it over there.

[getit29]

Originally posted by egarrard
I'm sorry to hear about that. We were lucky this time and missed the tornados and wind. I hope nobody got hurt in all of it over there.
Thanks egarrard,
I don't think anyone was hurt at least I haven't heard of any
injuries as of yet, just quite a bit of property damage from all
the wind and trees falling. I was talking to my girlfriends brother
last night and he said he spotted one small funnel cloud over
downtown then he turned and looked out this way and said he
seen the monster funnel cloud comming down out here by the
house. I just have a bad feeling that we will get a direct hit next
time one comes this way, the reason I feel like that is right after
the one that hit down there where you live the same storm came
over here that night with one just high enough off the ground
that you could hear it but not any real damage. Now this one gets
even closer to the ground close enough to cause a lot of damage
but not a direct hit so next time............???:Holy Crap :Nope:Crying

[getit29]

Originally posted by efernandez_98
Looks like the tree wanted to take the car out for a spin.

LOL!!:lmao yeah the tree couldn't get the door open so it just
got pissed and decided to go in through sunroof:lmao :rofl2

[getit29]

Originally posted by wazman
It's the new style in car camoflague...

Yeah the car is ready to go deer hunting now it is wearing it's
camo LOL!!:lmao :rofl2

[egarrard]

Originally posted by getit29
Thanks egarrard,
I don't think anyone was hurt at least I haven't heard of any
injuries as of yet, just quite a bit of property damage from all
the wind and trees falling. I was talking to my girlfriends brother
last night and he said he spotted one small funnel cloud over
downtown then he turned and looked out this way and said he
seen the monster funnel cloud comming down out here by the
house. I just have a bad feeling that we will get a direct hit next
time one comes this way, the reason I feel like that is right after
the one that hit down there where you live the same storm came
over here that night with one just high enough off the ground
that you could hear it but not any real damage. Now this one gets
even closer to the ground close enough to cause a lot of damage
but not a direct hit so next time............???:Holy Crap :Nope:Crying I was telling my nephew the other day that it was the 4th time I could remember that the tornados nearly hit UTSI. Bradyville got blasted for the 3rd year in a row too. There must be something to the "tornado alley" effect.

[WazLady]

I feel like a duck.

More rain for us tonight and all the way through the weekend:(

This is strange weather for us here in the Midwest at this time of the year. Though it is Tornado Season:(

My thoughts and prayers go out to the families who lost loved ones and homes....

[Scottman]

Originally posted by WazLady
I feel like a duck.

More rain for us tonight and all the way through the weekend:(

This is strange weather for us here in the Midwest at this time of the year. Though it is Tornado Season:(

My thoughts and prayers go out to the families who lost loved ones and homes....

Hey WazLady, where are you guys in Illinois? Are you in the Southern part of the State, or up around Chi Town? Right now in Milwaukee we are getting the tail end of the system that caused so much devastation in Oklahoma. Thank Heavens that for us it is only Thunderstorms (at least for the moment).

[WazLady]

Originally posted by Scottman
Hey WazLady, where are you guys in Illinois? Are you in the Southern part of the State, or up around Chi Town? Right now in Milwaukee we are getting the tail end of the system that caused so much devastation in Oklahoma. Thank Heavens that for us it is only Thunderstorms (at least for the moment).

We are in the Northren Part. About an hour and a half west of Chicago. It is a nice spot. We have the country living, yet an hour and a half away is CULTURE!!!! You can go to Chicago for shopping, see a Broadway show, see the Cubs lose(though they did win the other day)..and see the great museums and all that jazz.

Yeah, we had the the tail end of that system that you guys up there had too. But we still can get tornados here too:Crying

[Scottman]

Originally posted by WazLady
We are in the Northren Part. About an hour and a half west of Chicago. It is a nice spot. We have the country living, yet an hour and a half away is CULTURE!!!! You can go to Chicago for shopping, see a Broadway show, see the Cubs lose(though they did win the other day)..and see the great museums and all that jazz.

Yeah, we had the the tail end of that system that you guys up there had too. But we still can get tornados here too:Crying
I didn't realize that you could get 90 minutes West of Chicago and still be in IL. Depends on Traffic I guess. I bought a car from the Rockford area last summer. Seemed like a nice place.

Milwaukee has kinda the same situation as you guys. A little over an hour to Chicago when the traffic is good, so you can spend a day in the big city and come home to some peace and quiet.

[WazLady]

Originally posted by Scottman
I didn't realize that you could get 90 minutes West of Chicago and still be in IL. Depends on Traffic I guess. I bought a car from the Rockford area last summer. Seemed like a nice place.

Milwaukee has kinda the same situation as you guys. A little over an hour to Chicago when the traffic is good, so you can spend a day in the big city and come home to some peace and quiet.

Rockford is north of us. But, yes you can drive 90mins and still be in Illinois....

We have alot of cornfields around us and cows too. And right now a dog is barking.

When I go to Chicago I don't really run into much traffic till I get about 10miles outside the city on I55. But sometimes traffic can get backed up. Just depends on when you go. Lake Shore Drive can be a B***h sometimes.

See Blue Man Group! I highly recommend it!!!!!!:thumb

[getit29]

Originally posted by WazLady
We are in the Northren Part. About an hour and a half west of Chicago. It is a nice spot. We have the country living, yet an hour and a half away is CULTURE!!!! You can go to Chicago for shopping, see a Broadway show, see the Cubs lose(though they did win the other day)..and see the great museums and all that jazz.

Yeah, we had the the tail end of that system that you guys up there had too. But we still can get tornados here too:Crying


And hey don't forget you can also go see the Jerry Springer show
while you are there LOL!!!:lmao

[WazLady]

Originally posted by getit29
And hey don't forget you can also go see the Jerry Springer show
while you are there LOL!!!:lmao

Oh yes. I have known people at work who have taken the day off to see him and Jenny Jones too...

I want to see Oprah!

[getit29]

Oh boy here we go more strong storms comming through in the next hour or two
I will be glad when that cold front gets past here:Crying

[egarrard]

Originally posted by getit29
Oh boy here we go more strong storms comming through in the next hour or two
I will be glad when that cold front gets past here:Crying Yeah. Crap, here we go again...

[Raedwulf]

I used to look forward to sticking the SLR on a tripod and taking a loooong picture
sitting out in the rain... somehow the air smells 'fresher' when there's lightning

of course sitting outside when there's lightning AND hail tends to dampen my spirits... then I'll leave the screen door open so I can let the air in