My god is it raining outside

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You should've seen this place this afternoon :-o

At least 10 incidents of thunder varying from 15 seconds away to just 3 - not getting closer then further away, it seemed a bit more random.

And the rain!  My god the rain was bouncing off the pavements.  If you were outdoors you'd be soaked right through a raincoat in a matter of nanoseconds :-o

Luckily me and Siouxsie were inside all day :-D

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Karlos wrote:
Some of these were literally directly overhead - not even a fraction of a second from the flash to the thunderclap. Loud enough to make your bones rattle!

:lol: I love that :-D

Oh, one thing I forgot about... when the closest thunderclap happened this afternoon the lights here flickered and I heard a click noise.

I turned back to the pc to see it had shut itself off.  Switched it back on and what do I get?  "Windows did not shut down properly blah blah bleurgh".  The surge protected extension must've kicked in. Luckily I wasn't doing anything important like playing HL or D3 :-D

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We've had thunder and lots of bouncey rain since about 8am until just an hour ago.  It's still pretty dark outside though, probably more thunder on the way.

I just hope we don't get the hailstones up here tonight - I'm going out later :-)

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5 minutes ago I thought "must be going soon".

Looked out the window - all was dry.

Turned back to switch off the tv.

*RUMBLE*

Looked out the window again.

All I could see was rain bouncing off the pavements.

:-x

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Cyberus wrote:
I'm not complaining, I haven't had to water the garden in over a week :-)

We haven't been able to get out and cut our grass for about a month! :-o

At this rate it'll get cut sometime next year with a scythe :-P

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I wonder if that's the reason the power kept flickering down here :-)

I hope a lot of people had surge protectors for their mobos.