|
|
|
|
|
|||||||
Welcome to City-Data.com forum! Make sure to register - it's free and very quick! You have to register before you can post and participate in our discussions with 400,000 other registered members. User profiles and some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your free account you will be able to customize many options, you will have the full access to over 14,000 posts/day about local topics and you will see fewer ads. Within the last few months our forum was cited in an article in 15 newspaper and in a story on AOL's homepage.| Search our forums (advanced): |
 |
|
|
07-10-2008, 09:52 PM
|
|||
|
|||
7-10-08 wicked storm pics
Did anyone else get to watch it unfold? By far the coolest thunderstorm Ive ever been in. Heading out to Elburn after work to pick up my son, I noticed off to the NW there were some dark clouds. Yeah, boy were they ever dark, the darkest Ive seen before. Anyways, I pull over behind 2 other cars and start snapping off pics, as they were doing as well. The first pic is crappy, taken while driving, but you get the picture on how dark and menacing this sucker was. WHOA!
  Then the sunset that followed.... amazing. The camera didnt do it any justice whatsoever, not even close. An amazing, glowing ball of orange light, surrounded by purple and blue, with amazing bolts of horizontal-travelling lightning and deep, deep, deep roaring thunder. First pic is with the flash, hence the reflection on the raindrops:  W/o flash to expose the colors better. Its a shame I dont have a good camera, this wouldve been a sight to behold if I had a Canon 1D MKII.   Hang tight, Ill post the other 4 pics I took, that I actually stopped and set up. 
|
|
07-10-2008, 09:55 PM
|
|||
|
|||
|
What made the experience even more cool was the song playing on the radio... Phil Collins "In The Air Tonight". How fitting was that?!?! "I can feel it coming in the air tonight.... hold on". lol
  Am I underwater or something? Reminds me of ocean waves rolling over you when youre underwater and looking up, doesnt it?  
|
|
07-10-2008, 10:27 PM
|
|||
|
|||
|
Storms are best when viewed from farms... Good shots steve.
|
|
07-10-2008, 10:29 PM
|
|||
|
|||
|
You must keep your camera with you steve you lucky dog. lol
Great Pictures being out there with out a bunch of trees shows the vast amount of dark clouds in the skies.
|
|
07-11-2008, 08:06 AM
|
|||
|
|||
|
the skies were dark here in sugar grove, but nothing like that! great pix. also glad to hear the you pulled over and didn't snap those while driving!!!
|
|
07-11-2008, 08:59 AM
|
|||
|
|||
|
Wow ... that's all I can say. I have never seen anything like that before.
|
|
07-11-2008, 09:57 AM
|
|||
|
|||
|
Whats funny is that that storm was a complete puppy dog. It rained really hard (had to put the wipers on full speed) for about 5 minutes, then it was a constant medium rain for about 30 minutes, then light rain after that. Some nice thunder and lightning, and about 2 minutes of 30-40 mph winds, and that was it. I was expecting A LOT more than that! lol
|
|
07-11-2008, 09:58 AM
|
|||
|
|||
|
Yeah we didn't get real heavy rain in the city either, though we had some bitchin' lightning most of the night
|
|
07-14-2008, 09:55 PM
|
|||
|
|||
|
Wow! I'm near Rockford. and those pictures are incredible!
|
|
07-17-2008, 01:38 PM
|
|||
|
|||
|
Those are some wicked pics, Steve-o. Thanks for posting them.
|
|
Please register to post and access all features of our very popular forum. It is free and quick. Detailed information about all U.S. cities, counties, and zip codes on our site: City-data.com. |
|
| Thread Tools | Search this Thread |
| Display Modes | |
|
|
Linear Mode
