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Old 05-01-2009, 11:14 AM
 
Location: Middle TN
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Middle TN: 37062
I was video taping lighting last night...or early this morning at 12:30am. I am standing on a 1/2 acre of grass in front of my porch, camera angled to the sky with my dog Albert sniffing around.

I can hear the intensity picking up, looking through the lens, calling my dog back now and then.

Albert likes to wander as a high energy Lab mix w/some pit. I look up and Albert is gone. He ran down the hill and I didn't want to chase him, so I kept filming. Then I remembered he stayed out all night once and went to get the car.

It starts raining now, lightly, and I reach for my keys...NOT THERE! I look everywhere...no keys. The neighborhood kids came over to see something I bought at the pet store. They were only in the house for five minutes. Could one of them picked up the keys as a joke...a joke in the mind of a 10yo?

UGH!!! I look for an hour and finally take a flashlight covering my tracks and see them next to my car on the ground. Just them, Albert comes back, dripping, huffing and puffing like he had the time of his life.

So now I head to bed...and the sky opens up. In So Cal we might experience this MAYBE once every few years, but not for more than an hour. This was an all-nighter...CRAZY lightning.

Am I official now? LOL
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Old 05-01-2009, 12:41 PM
 
Location: Evansville, IN
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Pocketplayer, the storms were the one thing I missed after we moved to CA. (when we moved there in the middle of a drought, I actually got tired of seeing nothing but blue sky, no clouds and blazing sun!)

Get used to them, because they roll through regularly in the spring & summer!
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Old 05-01-2009, 12:41 PM
 
Location: Sparta, TN
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The one thing I have learned since I have been here (almost 2 years now) is that if you don't like the weather, just wait, it will change shortly!
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Old 05-01-2009, 12:48 PM
 
Location: Middle TN
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I actually got tired of seeing nothing but blue sky, no clouds and blazing sun!

AMEN...I felt the exact same way. No those not from So Cal...they think we are crazy...and if I lived in Wisconsin or Chicago, maybe I would feel the same, but in TN, the extreme just isn't so.

The weather does change a lot and I learned the hard way keeping my dog outside when I went to work. Beautiful clear sky...by the time I got to work and a few hours into my shift it was not only pouring rain, but a tornado was on its way.

...and loving it!

The one thing I DO NOT GET is Hickman Co off Hwy 7. Those roads go narrow almost instantly into dirt. With NO rain the roads went into a creek. That creek HAS to be a river now. HOW in the world do people get in and out? INSANE!!!

This fascinates me...these people that is...who are they? Do you have to own a jacked up 4 x 4 to survive?
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Old 05-01-2009, 01:57 PM
 
Location: Seattle
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Yeah, most of them probably have a truck big enough to get through a real creek.

But in reality most of them could probably survive for a couple months without leaving their houses.
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Old 05-01-2009, 02:37 PM
 
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Pocketplayer, the storms were the one thing I missed after we moved to CA. (when we moved there in the middle of a drought, I actually got tired of seeing nothing but blue sky, no clouds and blazing sun!)

Get used to them, because they roll through regularly in the spring & summer!
I am one of those people who miss thunderstorms. I grew up in the south, but have been in California for over 30 years. I'm in the Sacramento area where thunderstorms are rare. We see little or no rain from May through October. I can't wait to retire in Tennessee!
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Old 05-01-2009, 03:43 PM
 
Location: South of DAYTON
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Thumbs down Tornado South of Murfreesboro .?

Weather service was reporting another tornado touchdown with damage , south of Murfreesboro (?) . Sure looked like heavy rain for this area , this afternoon , early evening . ??
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Old 05-01-2009, 04:24 PM
 
Location: CA to TN to MD to GA to CO!
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I'm from So Cal too and my co-workers get a kick out of me, because I'm always oohing and awwing over the storms when they come... practically with my nose up against the glass to watch. Never a dull weather moment in Middle TN!
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Old 05-01-2009, 05:22 PM
 
Location: Murfreesboro, TN
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Weather service was reporting another tornado touchdown with damage , south of Murfreesboro (?) . Sure looked like heavy rain for this area , this afternoon , early evening . ??
There was a tronado warning in Lincoln County that resulted in monor damage, but NOTHING like our F4 here in Murfreesboro on Good Friday.
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Old 05-01-2009, 05:30 PM
 
Location: Knoxville, TN
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And then that wonderful just-washed-clean smell afterward! Love it. I, too, grew up in Southern California. I love the storms as long as they don't get carried away. We're about to get hit here in Knoxville.
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