HUGE Thunderstorm here tonight!

[Orangepeel]

Wow!

Right now we're just about at the end of a bout of really severe weather...haven't heard a storm like this in a long time :). One bolt of lightning hit so close, we thought something exploded next door :eek:! Jumped back from the sink and screamed, well, like a girl...lol.

Makes me wonder if any of you close to Toronto had severe weather as well, or in the vicinity of Southern Ontario. How about up North, or out to the East or West of Toronto?

[Tivon]

Originally posted by Orangepeel
Wow!

Right now we're just about at the end of a bout of really severe weather...haven't heard a storm like this in a long time :). One bolt of lightning hit so close, we thought something exploded next door :eek:! Jumped back from the sink and screamed, well, like a girl...lol.

Makes me wonder if any of you close to Toronto had severe weather as well, or in the vicinity of Southern Ontario. How about up North, or out to the East or West of Toronto?

Try Florida Baby...:Holy Crap

http://www.cnn.com/WEATHER/9807/08/lightning.strikes/

[egarrard]

You were in the northernmost part of the storm. We got slammed here. too.

Tornados went through the county around 7:00pm tonight. Flattened a church and 2 mobile home parks, leaving 2 people dead. Lots and lots of injuries.

I was taking a nap when the first storms came through, but was awakened by the next line. I turned on the television and they were showing a zoomed-in radar image of a tornado. One of the streets marked on the map was mine! I went out on the front porch and watched as a very low mass of cloud went by about 100yards away. I couldn't see if it touched the ground, but the wind through the trees sounded like they would be ripped up at any minute. The television said the winds were reported at 70-100mph. I believe it! Later it was reported that what I had seen was what hit the church. It's been an interesting evening.

http://www.wsmv.com/Global/story.asp?S=1006684&nav=1TcRCIXQ

[3dGameMan]

This was our area tonight:

[egarrard]

Yep, a bad night all over. I feel for the people to the east who haven't been hit yet.

[Orangepeel]

Originally posted by egarrard
Yep, a bad night all over. I feel for the people to the east who haven't been hit yet.

egarrard,

Do you have a shelter or a basement to head into, in case of a tornado? I feel terribly worried and sad for those with injuries and the loss of two people :(.

For some reason severe weather totally amazes me. It's hard to not watch from a window. Would love to see a tornado, just a little one...or the shape of a cloud that spawns one! As long as it's out in fields and not around people of course :).

[getit29]

Originally posted by egarrard
Yep, a bad night all over. I feel for the people to the east who haven't been hit yet.

Yeah egarrard we got hit just a little while after you got hit I
almost believe we had a twister go overhead from the same
storm that hit Manchester. I was in the closet covered up with
blankets and pillows and could still hear the roar overhead
kinda scary indeed. I know the sound of a twister going over
head since I've lived up north and seen several of them on
the ground and some going overhead it ain't a pretty sound
that's for sure. We got some almost golf ball size hail here
when the last line moved through and some smaller size from
the other storms sounded like the roof was coming off. I live
about 25 miles from Manchester. Seems like it was a bad day
all over the state and over other places to. Glad you're alright.

[egarrard]

No basement, but there is a pond in the front yard to dive into! :lmao I was just standing on the front porch, holding on to a post.

There wasn't much that I could make out tonight. It was just too dark to see much definition. I could make out something coming down low. The giveaway was the noise from the wind. I can hear them testing rocket engines over at the base 5 miles away sometimes. This sounded the same but very localized. I could tell for sure where it was by hearing that noise go by.

[egarrard]

Originally posted by getit29
Yeah egarrard we got hit just a little while after you got hit I
almost believe we had a twister go overhead from the same
storm that hit Manchester. I was in the closet covered up with
blankets and pillows and could still hear the roar overhead
kinda scary indeed. I know the sound of a twister going over
head since I've lived up north and seen several of them on
the ground and some going overhead it ain't a pretty sound
that's for sure. We got some almost golf ball size hail here
when the last line moved through and some smaller size from
the other storms sounded like the roof was coming off. I live
about 25 miles from Manchester. Seems like it was a bad day
all over the state and over other places to. Glad you're alright. Thanks! Glad you came out of it okay, too. I thought I was through with this stuff after I left Nashville. (Sherry should have seen that one. She wouldn't want to see another one again. :KICK ASS)

I never did see, or hear, any hail. Good thing. My car gets dented up bad enough going to Wal-Mart.

Wow. Temperature's dropped 20 degrees in the past hour. That's a good sign. No more storms tonight!

[getit29]

Originally posted by Orangepeel
egarrard,

Do you have a shelter or a basement to head into, in case of a tornado? I feel terribly worried and sad for those with injuries and the loss of two people :(.

For some reason severe weather totally amazes me. It's hard to not watch from a window. Would love to see a tornado, just a little one...or the shape of a cloud that spawns one! As long as it's out in fields and not around people of course :).

Sherry a twister is an awsome and very,very, scary site to
behold it is a adrenaline rush to watch one from a distance
as long as it's not coming your way and as long as no one
is getting hurt by it. I have seen several of them up north
and I seen the one that hit Nashville several years ago.
Some of them are really dark almost black as night and some
are a whitish color and some are almost invisible when they
are (rain wraped) - the worst kind because you don't know it's
coming because you can't see it. Altogether we have lost at
least 6 people confirmed maybe more across the state of
Tennessee since early Sunday morning - late Sunday evening
probably more since the storms are still moving into the eastern
part of the state right now. I don't know about egarrard but
wish I had a basement or shelter to head to but I only have
the closet for cover think I will build some kind of shelter before
next spring hopefuly anyway.

[getit29]

Originally posted by egarrard
Thanks! Glad you came out of it okay, too. I thought I was through with this stuff after I left Nashville. (Sherry should have seen that one. She wouldn't want to see another one again. :KICK ASS)

I never did see, or hear, any hail. Good thing. My car gets dented up bad enough going to Wal-Mart.

Wow. Temperature's dropped 20 degrees in the past hour. That's a good sign. No more storms tonight!

Yeah the Nashville storm was bad I was heading to Baptist Hospital to see a friend
when it hit I stopped on I-440 and sat there watching it cross over town I was
heading to West End Ave. over by the park I'm glad I didn't get the sooner or
I'd been right in the middle of it:Holy Crap
Yeah if Sherry had been there she could have seen it all real
good that day:eek:

[west1055]

It was a rough nite here in Georgia too. We had a tornado warning issued for my county (Polk) around 2:15am and we heard the sirens from town go off. We live in a mobile home so we left for some safer shelter. Although there was never any real tornado to actually touch down, there was lots of heavy rain, wind at least 70mph and lightening that lit of the sky almost continously. Luckly there was no reports of any damage or injuries in my area.

In Pickens County, Georgia (above Atlanta) was where the major damage was. There was a confirmed tornado, that destroyed some business and flattened many homes. Luckly no one was killed but there were some minor injures with all being treated and released from local hospitals. There was also a chicken house destroyed in a neighboring county.