Thunderstorms 2007

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We just had our first Thunderstorm for 2007 Spring, maybe first in 2007 (but I can’t say for sure since we weren’t here every day this year up to now.)

It wasn’t a long one, it did rain hard for a bit mid-point, and rained more softly before that and after that, and the “thunder” was far away, lightning strikes just visible as distant flashes, but the thunder did rumble very nicely. I do love to hear the ‘crash’ that comes with closer lightning strikes though, and today would have been perfect for that, with me being down about something and the release that would come from close lightning would have been quite welcomed.

Hopefully we’ll get some good storms this Spring/Summer, pleasant, not necessarily tornadic, but just great Thunderous Storms that show God’s Might awesomely.

Maisy

2 responses to “Thunderstorms 2007”

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    Maisy

    DH and I both awoke right before a new storm hit us in the middle of the night. The A/C wasn’t running, it was a bit stale in the bedroom … I hate it when it’s like that, so we were quite awake, wanting some fresher air. I got the A/C set lower and ah, relief, somewhat (Our bedroom has one “normal” spot for the bed and it has a “dead air space” around it, like where the head of the bed is, and it’s mostly worse in the “warmer” times of the year.)

    So then it started to rain and it was nice to listen to, then the crashing came and everything electric in the house turned off, then on, then off, then on, and so on.

    It went on and on, several times, and it was the worse version of “lost electricty service” I’ve ever seen at this house. It didn’t stay out very long, but did stay out for several minutes once, and a few minutes another time, and it’s no fun to have to start scrambling to get the ‘right’ things turned off to save them from damage.

    Unfortunately the Desktop computer got messed up –meaning my Profile was corrupted. 🙁 I don’t work on that one much, but I do have a need for it to be a certain way, so it’s not so hard to get my special folders set up correctly for my desktop and documents, I keep them outside of my “profile” and use Tweak UI.

    The Router also got messed up, lost it’s Configurations, and of course, that backup info was on the Desktop computer.

    So I’ve been running around getting things back to working. Isn’t it fun to HAVE to be productive in the middle of the night?

    It’s not “have to” but it is something I would have to get working sooner than later, seeing as we use Vonage and want all our systems up and running for DH’s work in the AM. I’m the IT person in the house, so middle of the night wakefulness in this case was useful.

    The lightning and thunder from this storm were pretty nice, not too close, but boomy and crashy to a larger degree than the afternoon storm I blogged about earlier (above.)

    I was able to finally get to accuweather to look at radar a bit ago and it was nice to see the storm coming South, and the timecode showed what was what … the very yellow cells in the storm were overhead right around 3am.

    Our DirecTivo boxes didn’t get disconnected or turned off in advance, and when that happens you have to wait for the power to come on again safely, and then the boxes have to boot up, which is a forever operation, and one that generally, in our house, means we have to “reboot” manually with the button next to the card slot … or else functionality will hang on bootup and then if it does continue on eventually there are problems … so I learned long ago, if the box loses power, just turn it back on and then immediately reboot on purpose, don’t wait to see what will happen … it takes forever for the reboot from start to finish in the first place, let alone a messed up hanging one that will have to be “rebooted” later anyhow.

    So when we got the TV back on, weather channel was fairly useless in showing us anything. That’s when I got onto the network stuff with the computers.

    Well, I have to fool with the Desktop Computer sometime in the coming day … to get things working better, make a new profile (I hate it when it makes a “TEMP” profile … ugh. It’s a matter of icky ness, and it would be so nice to have a power thingie for that computer … laptops are never so flaky since they have a battery. FWIW.)

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  2. Maisy Avatar
    Maisy

    Wouldn’t you know, once I wrote that I was looking online a bit more and all of the sudden …. vwomp … the power suddenly went out, but there was no lighting that I could hear at all. That was around 4:45am that it went out.

    It came back on at 8:01am.

    A house at the wee dark time before the sun is up is really dark with no power, I found my Sansa player (with a lit candle for light) and listened to a couple of symphonies while laying on the couch, and rested that way, with dreamy sleep behind the music. 🙂

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