AdamHLG

My house was hit by lightning on June 29 last year. It caused considerable damage. Everything now fixed. I raise this as a caution: Be careful what you complain about! It took a split second lightning strike for me to convert from complaining that a line of storms missed my location to now having PTSD that a line of storms is approaching my location.

Snow or no snow, do we think it's safe to turn back on the outdoor hose bibs? Hard to imagine pipes will freeze again this winter. I would like to start spring cleaning and I do not feel like going through the process to shut off the water and drain the veins again.

I am having thread withdrawal depression. There is nothing worse than going back to the lingering FOLKS thread and kicking the ashes around the remnants of the basement dumpster fire. I really thought this would be the year to end the 9 year 6" drought in northern Baltimore. To have it end this way is worse than the way the Ravens playoff run ended.

The only good thing that happened during the 7 days of tracking this non-event was a few days ago when Stormtracker temporarily changed his Beethoven image face to a "FOLKS" face . That was absolutely perfect comedic timing and it was just a genuine great hour of everyone feeling amazing at the storm depicted by the King.

Very impressive. In Baltimore County there are many FD calls including a tree onto occupied vehicle , tree into a house, and many many wires /arcing calls. We had a tree crash down into the back yard. .

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This model run is the iceberg. If we hit it we are going to sink. .

I’m liking the High Wind Watch. I gotta focus on something to get my eyeballs out of the other thread for a day or so - it’s become obsessive! NWS discussion has wet my appetizer for severe. Just in case something goes wrong next week. .

Is there a 2025 severe thread? This one started 2/19/24. High wind watches are up and some talk of severe tomorrow. .

I hate to be the voice of reason but it is still only mid-day Friday. Who is to say the GFS is wrong at this point? PSU was right a whole lotta pages up. We need to wait until Sunday. Enjoy the feeling for now - no denying that. But we have seen this movie before. Steady as she goes as they say.

This place feels like a powder keg about to get lit on the upcoming Euro. It does not help that I am already getting texts from edge contacts asking me if it's going to snow 15" next Wednesday. The public hype machine already in full swing.

“The call on the euro of a slider off to the south and east is under review” Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk

Just give me my Northern Baltimore County WWA so I can end this 10 day nightmare :—( .

At this point I don't even care how many inches the models predict. After watching this for a week, if Northern Baltimore gets a Winter Weather Advisory it will suck the season's life out of me.

January 21, 2016 was a loooooong time ago. We used to get the big ones every 3 years. We are at year 9. At some point one of these needs to deliver 18" plus. It is time to reset the timer so let's do it already. I can understand the doom and gloom. I like snow like the rest of ya, but at some point I want more than 6". And 6" I might add means it's really 3.5" most of the time by game day.

Engine Company 28 DCFD. Yes I did a screen capture on the photo and uploaded it to ChatGPT. :---)

Test. Sorry for the gibberish on my posts last few days. I was on Tapatalk Pro and needed to delete that app and go back to Tapatalk. It had bad bugs. I hated being that guy. I traced down the problem. Sorry.

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So easy to say that - but - on Tuesday this show will be over and all eyes on next weekend's potential and we do it all over again!

16 active members at happy hour says all I need to know about the current models :--(

Don't worry. We will make up for the lack of precip on the back end. This now concludes my response readiness test for posting on the upcoming winter pattern.

Be careful what you wish for !!!

Since it’s quiet in here, thought you might like to see what my tree trunk looks like after my direct strike from June 29 with the tree removed yesterday. Pretty wild.

Posting this here so as to not clog the severe thread. This is regarding the direct strike at my house last night I mentioned in the severe thread. I figured I would write my report. We are all weather enthusiasts and extreme weather is in our blood, but you need to play it safe! I saw our cells rolling in on RadarScope and was checking the forum for posts in the 45 min leading up to it. I went to sit on my front stoop with my dog for a few minutes watching a very distant light show through the trees in the night sky and the long delayed slow rumbling thunder. It was very peaceful in the still humid air. I was checking RadarScope to see if it would hold together, and to my surprise, it was. When I saw a trending and emerging pattern of multiple lightning strikes on RadarScope in Carroll County, I knew the moment it hit the Baltimore County line - or - the WSW was issued - that would be my personal indicator to head inside. 3 minutes later both triggers happened simultaneously, and that was that - time to go in. I knew there would still be 20 minutes or so until the show was to begin - but I like to play it safe. It was about 25 min later and we saw a few relatively close 'flashes' through the windows and then the crack of thunder 3 or 4 seconds later. I knew at that point this really was "for real" and we were now in 'the 'zone' - not that a direct strike would actually ever happen - but knowing in theory that it 'could actually happen' was in my mind. About 3 minutes after that I was standing in the kitchen and my wife sitting on the couch and "FLASHBANG" it was a blinding light and instantaneous explosion. I screamed "WOAH...." and I was frozen in my steps. My wife jumped off the couch freaked out. It scared the **** out of both of us. She finally said "I think that hit us" and after my initial frozen shock (so to speak - but I did not electrically feel the jolt), I started immediate damage assessment like on a submarine movie. I immediately went to breaker box in the basement to check for fire and any tripped breakers (first step - check for hazards and this offers clues). No fire or odor but sure enough 2 breakers flipped - one for garage and one for upstairs bedroom. Quickly finished initial primary assessment in basement and headed to bedroom next - noticed various TV and power out on some outlets, but no other hazards or odors. Attic assessment would require ladder - that would need to be last. Finished remainder of upstairs primary assessment and next to garage via first floor level with no hazards evident along the way. Entered garage and immediately notice no power, odor of electrical burning, and moderate haze in the flashlight beam. No active fire. Initiated 911. Continued the assessment in the garage and located the outdoor landscape lighting transformer which had exploded. FD arrived and we initiated full secondary assessment of attic, walls, interior, exterior, with thermal imager checking for heat. It was at that point a firefighter tells me it must have come right down the tree and entered your house at the landscape lighting. I ask "why do you say that?" He says "you didn't see the tree?" And that's the moment I learned what got struck. No further hazards were found on secondary assessment. FD cleared after 40 min. Still assessing the actual interior damages and currently drafting the repair matrix. Thanks for listening to my experience!

This is the truth !! I am posting additional comment in the banter thread so as to not clog this thread.