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April Showers bring May flowers. Hitting PS right now. I love a good thunder storm! AC/DC reference there
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Subject: Re: THUNDER! Na Na NA Nana na
here comes the hotstepper Ini Kamoze reference there (sorry, all those Na Nas got it stuck in my head)i extend my battery life by turning down the brightness -
Oh, man, it makes me crave ice cream!!!! I grew up in a flat land. When thunderstorms came (and they did), we would make ice cream cones and watch the drama from the front porch. So every time there's thunder and lightning, I want an ice cream cone.
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Yo.. walk around the corner.. I got ice cream and a Back porch.
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Veets, I will remember that for next time!
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HI! I also love loud thunderstorm) When I just was born the thunder outside thundered.From Russia with love
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Nice little thunder clap right now. Hoping for more!(\__/)
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We're supposed to get more tonight - gonna get my gardening out of the way early today.
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Yeah I had the same thought about gardening early but I am sitting here at the computer and I have been up for hours. Somehow gardening in an afternoon thunder storm has no appeal.
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ljnd » We're supposed to get more tonight - gonna get my gardening out of the way early today.
How does your garden grow? Come around the corner.. gorgeous Clematis and Salvia... It is the garden's "purple" time of the season. -
Transplanted the violets just in time and made a lovely border. I will be headed past your house tomorrow and will be sure to stop and gaze - I love salvia!!
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Having grown up with dogs who HATED thunderstorms, I have just now learned to tolerate them. Still hate the local fireworks of 4th of July though...
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Veets, I passed by yesterday - that salvia is so gorgeously purple, and the clematis is so wonderful!!! It made me smile.
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ljnd...and more pretty things to bloom and plant!
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Posts: 9,622veets » [quote="ljnd"]We're supposed to get more tonight - gonna get my gardening out of the way early today.
How does your garden grow? Come around the corner.. gorgeous Clematis and Salvia... It is the garden's "purple" time of the season.[/quote] my salvia just popped last week - right after I transplanted it. It makes me smile. I'll have to remember to drive by your house and check it out. -
Flexichick » my salvia just popped last week
TMI?
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Posts: 9,622jeffrey » [quote="Flexichick"]my salvia just popped last week
TMI? :lol:[/quote] Ha! Jeffrey, come meet me at Munch Box for lunch, you dirty bastard -
D'oh!
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I thought this was going to be about thundercats!!!Fight white guilt and injustice by smoking tax free guilt free Reservation Smokes or go gamble in a Native Casino.
I like to stick it to The Man, The Man happens to be Liberal in NYC(power Structure). -
WOW that was right behind my house, huge flash of light in my kitchen.
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Hah, another, wicked loud, with no delay between lighting and thunder. And another, but to the West. Slope? Okay, I'm really not going to do color commentary for each of these, I promise... i extend my battery life by turning down the brightness
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Posts: 9,622getting loud here in WT. Do not like. I'm in the office (interior room with no windows) and drinking mah wine. -
^ Bombed shelter
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Posts: 9,622jeffrey » ^ Bombed shelter
dats right! it's also very, very dark out.
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Oh, but isn't the cool air such a blessing after yesterday's heat wave? I'm loving it!!(\__/)
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Definitely no need to water tomorrow. Rose garden will live another day! (in spite of me)i extend my battery life by turning down the brightness
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Posts: 9,622Sky is getting dark. Went outside to put down patio umbrella and felt the first drop of rain. VEETS! come get me! I get scared
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I'll hold you. ^
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Posts: 9,622Drunken Revival » I'll hold you. ^
Ha. So nice to know you care. I feel the Brooklynian love. (i think this might scare me more than the storms, though) -
Flexichick » Sky is getting dark. Went outside to put down patio umbrella and felt the first drop of rain. VEETS! come get me! I get scared
Darlin.. I was gonna run over but so far no rain! Don't fret momma is here! -
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Posts: 9,622^ 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!(\__/)
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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!
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Posts: 9,622Veets - 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 -
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Posts: 9,622Veets! Come get me! HALP! TORNADO WATCH in effect until Saturday, Jul 24, 1:00 AM NY . NEW YORK COUNTIES INCLUDED ARE BRONX KINGS NASSAU NEW YORK ORANGE PUTNAM QUEENS RICHMOND ROCKLAND SULLIVAN WESTCHESTER -
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.
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Posts: 9,622yah, 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.
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Posts: 9,622I 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.Did Someone Say Walk?
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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. For her own convenience, however, I have also heard that she stores it divided among the area's multitude of wine shops.
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Posts: 9,622Mpmav1 » 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 -
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Posts: 9,622jeffrey » [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. :tongue:[/quote]
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.
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Yeah, ultimately it was disappointing. And I'm peeved about the rain (means I have to water yet AGAIN tomorrow morning).
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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.
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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.i extend my battery life by turning down the brightness -
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.i extend my battery life by turning down the brightness -
Really awesome thunder and lightning storm right now. Crazy, even the lights are flickering...(\__/)
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