29 June 2011

Stormy Weather

We had a short, but powerful storm move through last night. Here is a tree limb that was torn off of our neighbor's tree...


photo of downed tree limb


Although this storm packed some pretty powerful winds, it did not hold a candle to the thunderstorm we had last week. That storm lasted for well over 30 minutes and some of the thunder was so loud, that it actually shook the house.

7 comments:

  1. we had a pretty good one here about a week ago. Today just gray skies and chilly.
    Glad it was only a small branch that fell

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  2. Yikes! I hate thunderstorms! We don't have any here thankfully. I think we've only heard thunder once in the 8 years we've been here and people called 911 thinking we were under attack! Seriously!

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  3. Ann: I think it was only about 6 or 7 feet long, but it sounded a lot bigger when it was being torn off the tree.

    BeadedTail: We have them several times a year and this was the second one within a week. Koko and Yum Yum usually hide-out under the beds until it is over. The one last week was VERY intense: with blinding light and house-rattling thunder.

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  4. We have had a couple this week. We're in severe drought so we really appreciate rain but don't need the high winds.

    The Florida Furkids and Angel Sniffie

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  5. Furkidsmom: I didn't know that. I hope you get some more rain soon.
    The storm last week had quite a bit of rain, but the one last night was pretty dry.

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  6. These storms lately are very scary. We had a bad one too last week! Our power was off for 17 hours and our dog came on the bed with us and was shaking!

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  7. Karen and Gerard: So far, we have been pretty lucky and our power has only gone out for a few seconds. It sounds as if you have a very smart dog! Do you get these kind of storms often where you live? Here, it's maybe a once or twice a year type thing to have a bad thunder storm.

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