Stormfly

Best CG this year so far. My iPhone 12 Pro Max is out in this clamped to a pole. Recording in 4K/60. Gonna be a big file! I will probably upload this night.

Just inside yellow box. Nice thunder and power flickering.

It got dark AF here! Wow!

Over a foot of rain PLUS surge???! I hope not!

Good rumbling coming from those storms to our north. Had the mute the squawker on the Boltek.

160 meter sferics is quite active now!

I hope not. That cleanup was a mess!

Just a bit of an annoyance at their peak!

Orioles and weather have something in common! Frequent busts!

Don't forget it's the double curse - I name AND Female!!! Isabel and Irene were very high impact events for us here. Here comes Ida marching in... As Ivan proved, you don't need a coastal to mess things up. Granted it's not widespread but a 100 mph nader does a bit more than trade trash bins with your neighbors!

Don't really see much of an issue outside of work being done on aging system. However if you didn't hear the alarm and suspect you'd find a flood...that definitely sounds well beyond a simple weeping issue! You should closely monitor during any heavy rain. Also make sure gutters and grade aren't contributing to water building up next to the foundation walls. That's always going to be a problem. Sometimes some excavation is required around the area, clean up the wall nice and seal it up well. Water ingress on below grade walls is never good even if you have a french drain and pit with pump whisking it away. The drainage problem needs to be fixed.

Frankenstorm II??!

Bloody awful out there. Just throwing the frisbee gets us a good soaking. 79/79. And the sun is coming out. 5% TOR, probably watch coming this afternoon.

Ready for 33F Rain here!

How old is that installation? Butadiene rubber is pretty resilient but like anything has its limits. Frost heaving, settling, and seismic activity is the only thing that can think of that could cause it to tear and fail. If the weeps can be traced to the line itself going back to where the seal meets the line, tightening the clamps down with a nut driver is enough to stop it. We're on wells up here and I like to see the lines at 36" depth or more, well below the frost line. City water copper feeds also can transmit vibration from roads if your foundation is <50' from a roadway. Some communities that have lots of cut through traffic put in traffic humps and I pity anyone that has one in front of their home and lives close to the road! In any case, those small water alarms are nice. Especially around the laundry sink!

Your main line is copper. Looks like they passed polyethylene tubing through the wall as a shield and passed the copper through that. Using rubber reducer couplings and clamps to keep it sealed. Hydraulic cement and sealer should be applied on both sides around the wall penetration. Even still, with high hydrostatic pressure from the outside it can weep.

Biggest thing with cylinders is freezing up! My RM Young tipper is quite accurate. The biggest joker of the bunch is the Tempest "haptic" sensor. Might as well use the infamous "weather rock" hanging from a sling!

What is the source of that data? That peak looks suspicious.

You could use a good router with diamond bit!

Especially considering Grace is coming. Horrible timing with that one.

Neighbor's fence hit, charger blew up. I was in the shop and it was loud like crack of a .45/70. Can't wait to see what he brings me. Last one was a total loss. This lightning/thunder had that wicked "midwest" roar/crackling sound to it. Milder than the 08/17/2017 storm (a bolt hit a gate about 60' from where I was standing and I felt a STRONG shock through my shoes! I usually stand with my feet together when it storms (did today LOL) but that close one was a shocker, pun not intended! It took a long time after the warning before it got bad. Mind you "by the books" it was not severe but lightning doesn't really have a category in severe warnings. And aside from flash flooding, is probably going to make for a very bad day if you get nailed or as we like to say "get the new look".

Nice storm rolled through. Power out. Awesome lightning sounded like I was neighbor to a bowling alley on a Friday night. Well at least half of that is right. Sky looked nasty before the rain got here. Thought we were gonna see some hail out of this one.

Have fond memories of that one. Washed out a bridge on our land we used for moving equipment into the woods. Had to widen the banks and pour concrete pilings. That little creek (about 8' wide normally) swelled up to over 300' wide and the amount of backwash and tree fall from root erosion was incredible. It was breezy enough to cause annoying power outages too. We could use the rain up here in NE MD but not three months worth in a day or two!

Beware of said flickering lights!

Night before last (08/10) near Glen Arm MD. Turned into a pretty nasty storm near Carney/Perring Plaza where I was headed.