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  1. vastateofmind
    This x100. Had several young friends when I was a kid get struck by lightning when standing under a tree....one died. I guess I thought that, logically, most of us have been taught NOT to stand under trees when thunderstorms descend....maybe that isn't a safe assumption anymore. I experienced a direct lightning strike to the front peak of my childhood home in PA when I was a teenager...the immediate thunder crash and literal shaking to the foundation of our 100-year old home, combined with (literally!) EVERY electrical appliance in the house spiking/surging/failing/screaming was an experience I won't forget for the rest of my life. And because of it...I have a VERY healthy respect for lightning, always.
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    Right? By the time you get to the "Oh, SHIT!" moment....it could be/might be TOO LATE for you. If it's THAT blackish/greyish/greenish in the sky when this type of weather approaches? My ass is gonna be in our HALF BASEMENT. I love to photograph and do video of wx phenom, but not to the detriment of me remaining upright and vertical...
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    A "thin" early evening storm passing through late last week....seemed to consist of a gust front and little else behind it, which allowed the sunset to underlight the backside.
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    LOL. So, in terms of amusement parks, it seems that roller coasters are the *ONLY* type of ride this old man can handle anymore. I can't spin, do barrel rolls, or otherwise ROTATE in any way on any amusement ride (with the arguable exception of LOOPING coasters, for some reason!) without getting vertigo or some motion sickness. It saddens me....as I used to be able to ride ANYTHING that the amusement parks offered, at least decades ago.
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    LOL. The SooperDooperLooper IS pretty tame by today's standards, but brings back a lot of great memories. I was a pre-teen WAY back when that coaster (one of the first loopers on the East Coast or the country, I think?) opened, and the coolest souvenir to have that summer was the "I survived the SooperDooperLooper!" t-shirt...
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    Haven't had any 120 since you brought that up....dear God, late last winter or early spring! Need to try to track down some of that at Wegmans on the brew run tomorrow.
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    Well...it's nothing that a decent IPA can't fix, right, @CAPE? What's in your mug tonight??
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    Wow....this is sad, Wildcat is a great coaster. To @mappy's point....it's definitely gotten to be a rougher ride over the years. Really....Hersheypark is probably my favorite East Coast park for roller coasters. I could ride the Great Bear ALL. DAMN. DAY. A close second preference for great coaster variety is Busch Gardens Williamsburg....I think the Alpengeist there is my all-time favorite coaster, followed by Apollo's Chariot. Wasn't a great fan of the Griffon, after I let my sons drag me onto it. I just have a thing/preference for suspended coasters.
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    95/76. As bad as that is, those numbers are still lower than when we swung through Savannah on our way to Tybee Island last week...got an adult Icee at Wet Willies on the Savannah waterfront and it was completely melted within 20 minutes. The SC low country does heat and humidity SO well. I don't mind the H&H at the height of summer around here, actually prefer it over the typical cold/wet we've had in recent winters, but for those of you who hate it, well....don't go out there right now.
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    Sorry to see this. The range of conditions across the DMV on this particular line has been interesting. Many getting hammered; some getting hardly anything at all.
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    I know, right? That stuff was really rotating when it first started to move in...mesmerizing. And nice indeed on the 'hood meet! My wife and I were wondering if last night was the HF/VH B meet. Pretty sure you probably know our awesome next-door neighbors (the Garcias) who live here in HF, but are still members at VH. They are SUCH a cool fam...
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    Some middling lightning/thunder, steady rain for about 10-15 min now, none of which I feel deserves a ST warning....but the most impressive thing was the boiling pot of mammatus clouds just prior to the "main" weather kicking in on this line...
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    Noticed this same setup at least 3-4 times yesterday -- I don't recall seeing these types of clouds very often in this area.
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    100/77. Somewhat impressive.
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    98/73. Nice breeze though. Good practice for living in SC.
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    Right? It was an armageddon forecast early this AM, they tempered it somewhat in the late morning disco update and midday grid forecast, and now it's back to this morning's grid since the watch was issued. Odd, given that conditions seemed to support increased chance of severe throughout the day.
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    Which is interesting...because LWX has taken a more measured tone with their updated afternoon forecast WRT severe...there was a lot less "slight" and "possibly" in there this morning.
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    A shot closer to ground level....it was an impressive five minutes of hail. I'm a little scared to look at our barely two-year old roof.
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    Indeed. One of the worst hails I've experienced since moving to this house 20+ years ago. My wife asked me to move her car out of the carport to take advantage of the car wash-like deluge, and I'd no sooner got it out into the driveway when I heard the hard pinging start...needless to say, I pulled it back into the carport.
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    34/26, light rain. Radar indicates freezing rain, but it's not (at least here).
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    Amen. 30. With friggin' flurries and snow showers in today's forecast...
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    We semi-mock the simple graphics of these early-gen consoles back in the 1980s....but they were REALLY fun, and I think the simplicity had a lot to do with that. Pick up and play, damn it! Easy to learn and adapt. The PlayStation 2 (for which I still have that copy of the SSX Tricky snowboarding game) was one of the last consoles that was still somewhat easy to pick up and adapt to. Console games have gotten SO damn complicated now...I try to play football, hockey or soccer on the PS5 with one of my adult sons but get routinely routed by them....because I can't keep all of the complicated button-mashing straight. It may have something to do with my, you know, AGE, too.
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    Oh, MAN, did you dredge up some memories! I had the later generation of this, the Odyssey2, when I was a teenager. It wasn't Atari or Intellivision, but it held its own! But almost every weekend now, I treat myself to my favorite game ever -- SSX Tricky. My sons even bought me a beat-up, used PlayStation 2 and an old copy of SSX Tricky, so I can relive the "old" days (SSX came out in the early 2000s ). Of course, the physics in SSX are completely goofy and impossible, but damn, is it fun doing those uber-tricks.
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    Uggggh, SAME. I let the early warmup tempt me, and plan (seemingly too early) my own power washing of the back patios this weekend. Just as well, as I haven't accounted for the annoying red bloom thingys that fall from the trees, as well as the damn spinners which will make their appearance in several weeks...all of which stain the patios.
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