THUNDER! Na Na NA Nana na

^ thanks Veets! Looks like it missed us....again!

My mama knows not to call me during a storm because I won't answer. Ha.

Yeah, THUNDER!! Hope you guys closed your windows before you left for work. I practically had a river coming in. d'oh!

Flexi ... and all..That earlier deluge was so heavy and "directed" that I could not sit on the porch without getting wet. Rain was good for garden but has done nothing to reduce the humidity!

Veets - it was raining too hard for me to come over :-)

Garden finally got a good soaking, but you are right - it's still gross out

Veets! Come get me! HALP!

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I am sitting on the porch and no Tornado... yet.
But.. gonna come in and get in the shower because I am soaked.. with sweat.
Kids came over.. grilled some fish for dinner..not a breeze.
This summer is just a disaster for my body and the garden.

yah, my garden is struggling (except for my tomatoes, which are booming....I hope they don't get crushed in storm).

I have opened bottle of wine and found my flashlights. Just in case.

The mugginess this afternoon was unprecedented. Sat outside with my young'un and some homemade ice cream to watch the lightning and count the thunder seconds. It's going to be dramatic, I think.

Naturally. Because I watered my garden this morning.

I think we missed it. I was watching the weather channel and it was pouring and crazy in the city. I think it already moved past. Just one HUGE crack here. I wouldn't mind the rain (nor would my garden), but can do without the thunder/lighting/hail, etc

That "one HUGE crack" was NUTS! Wish I could have seen that.

Flexichick wrote: I have opened bottle of wine and found my flashlights. Just in case.

I have come to the conclusion that Flexi must have at her disposal one of the area's largest collections of wine.

For her own convenience, however, I have also heard that she stores it divided among the area's multitude of wine shops.

:drunken:

Mpmav1 wrote: That "one HUGE crack" was NUTS! Wish I could have seen that.

It seemed to be right outside my window in WT, but maybe not because I was waiting for the car alarms to go off

jeffrey wrote: [quote=Flexichick]I have opened bottle of wine and found my flashlights. Just in case.

I have come to the conclusion that Flexi must have at her disposal one of the area's largest collections of wine.


:drunken:

I don't actually keep more than a few bottles on hand at a time. I was not going to drink any tonight but I got a-scared, so I went to my backup plan (opening the wine).

Well Flexi.. turns out there was no rain. Just the "distance" show. Still, the potential of activity justified opening a bottle.

Thinking rain is prohibited in Brooklyn.

Yeah, ultimately it was disappointing. And I'm peeved about the rain (means I have to water yet AGAIN tomorrow morning).

It wasn't all for naught for everyone.

http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/brooklyn/2010/07/24/2010-07-24_lightning_strikes_man_in_bklyn.html

A 54-year-old man was critically injured when a bolt of lightning zapped him on a Brooklyn street yesterday, Fire Department officials said.

The unidentified man was walking under some trees in the median of Eastern Parkway near Bedford Ave. in Crown Heights during a rainstorm when he was struck by the fiery bolt, officials and a witness said.

"When the lightning struck, I saw the man fall," said eyewitness Andrea Brown, 47, of the 9p.m. accident.

"His feet were smoking and he was bleeding from the mouth," said Brown, who saw the horrific sight from her home. "It was terrifying."

Responders frantically pumped the man's chest to try to revive him. "You could smell burning flesh," said Lt. Joe Cengiz of EMS Station 38. "His heart stopped."

That's when paramedics Jing Kong, 30, and Stephen Tortoriello, 28, got the man into an ambulance and jolted him back to life.

"They shocked him once with the defibrillator and got a pulse," Cengiz said.

The man was taken to Kings County Hospital, where he is breathing on a respirator.

The incident comes almost exactly a year after a Brooklyn man was struck by lightning during a cricket match in Marine Park.

Patrick Gibson, 42, was struck last July 26 while trying to escape a thunderstorm on the field. He survived.

When I read this I imagined Tree Breaker Steve was having his best round ever coming down the parkway, and then at the height of his round he suddenly had a moment like that old golfer guy in Caddyshack:





Darn. Hope this guy end up okay.

From the Brooklynian Flickr pool:

Lightning over downtown Brooklyn (photo credit: carnade)


If you squint your eyes, it almost looks like Tom Cruise hovering over Oprah.

Really awesome thunder and lightning storm right now. Crazy, even the lights are flickering...

Is that Thunder?

No question about it... that is Thunder!

Seeing some pretty lightning bolts out my lower manhattan office window. Eep lemme get home before the heavens open up...

Sounds serious out there. Gonna go do some porch sitting and watch the show or watch the show pass us by, as sometimes happens.

That was LOUD!! Rain is coming down STRONG!

Yep that was strong rain. We ordered dinner in and are planning on a beautiful indoor evening and a watered garden and the later is a rare event this summer.

^^ Right? I'm so grateful - as are my tomatoes, eggplant, cucumbers, peppers, flowers. I was in the city for the worst of it - but popped out to pick basil and was so surprised at the wet!

That was a crazy downpour.

Weird lightning storm going on right now. Lightning crawling across the sky but it's not raining.

D'oh, spoke too soon, it's raining now

It's effing hailing!

correct. photos coming