Holy Crap - I Just Saw The Coolest Storm Move In Over Puget Sound

[MrCoffee]

it was like a freakin' wall of water. you could watch things disappear into it. it's raining like crazy right now.

[Quantess]

1. That came my way about an hour ago. It's clear skies now.

[Sanity Claws]

2. Thunder and lightning too

I'm in Ballard (Seattle). No clear skies, at least not yet.

[MrCoffee]

3. I live in Ballard, work downtown...

it's a small world after all.

[Xipe Totec]

4. Sounds like Houston weather

Strange to see it as far north as Puget Sound.

[Quantess]

6. Nah, it's always raining here.

When I said "clear skies" I just meant that it stopped raining momentarily.

[Xipe Totec]

7. Yea, I know

I know you guys get a lot of rain.

It's just that in Houston it comes down all at once, in sheets. You'll be driving down the freeway on dry pavement and BAM! You hit a wall of rain and can't see the hood of your car. An inch of rain in 15 minutes is not unusual. Then you get past the storm, and it's dry pavement again.

Really freaky.

[Quantess]

8. That is freaky.

What's dry pavement look like?

[Xipe Totec]

9. LOL!

:rofl:

[skygazer]

5. I watched a storm approach over the high plains of Montana once

I was hitchhiking and I was in eastern Montana where it's all fairly level plains. I could see for miles. And way off in the distance was this line of dark clouds. The land is so big there, you could see where it ended on both sides even though it had to be miles wide. And I just stopped hitching and stood there watching it approach for about half an hour. You could see the lightning jabbing down and the sheets of rain coming out of dark, dark clouds. It was perfectly parallel to me and absolutely gorgeous. When it finally got to where I was, I ducked under an overpass and watched it go by.

One of the coolest things I've ever seen.

[rustydog]

10. The thunder was tremendous!

We watched it roll over the hospital in Kirkland and got drenched!

[flamingyouth]

11. It was very wild

The lights went out at my parents' house on Queen Anne. Apparently lightning struck a transformer. When I was driving home a lot of traffic lights were out along Eastlake and Lakeview Blvd.

And don't get me started on the commute along Montlake Blvd. about 3 pm. Took me an hour to get from University Village to 24th and Boyer. :cry: