08-03-2009, 09:33 PM
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#201
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It's coming down pretty good over here in the SE (near peigan tr). The lightning is pretty cool. A couple pretty awesome cracks of thunder. I love thunderstorms!
I'm also thankful i have underground parking.
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08-03-2009, 09:35 PM
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#202
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Calgary
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Is anyone actually seeing the lightning? Or just the sky going bright? I'll go out, i just need reassurance it'll be worth my time.
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08-03-2009, 09:36 PM
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#203
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Calgary
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Quote:
Originally Posted by jschick88
Just starting pouring in the NW, Mcknight and Centre.
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I can verify that, Centre & 40 th NW. 
Great light show, not as good as last night though.
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08-03-2009, 09:36 PM
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#204
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#1 Goaltender
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Calgary
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Nothing in Country Hills. It does look dark to the eas thou.
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08-03-2009, 09:37 PM
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#205
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Locked in the Trunk of a Car
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In Acadia here, and the lightning is pretty good but so far doesn't come close to last night.
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08-03-2009, 09:40 PM
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#206
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Victoria
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too bad my camera batteries are dead
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08-03-2009, 09:40 PM
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#207
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Lifetime Suspension
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Was driving home on Memorial, just started to rain big time. Forgot I hated when it rains really hard when I am driving.
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08-03-2009, 09:42 PM
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#208
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Playboy Mansion Poolboy
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Close enough to make a beer run during a TV timeout
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Jayems
Is anyone actually seeing the lightning? Or just the sky going bright? I'll go out, i just need reassurance it'll be worth my time.
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Down in Copperfield it's just the "cloud to cloud" kind of lightning. Which is fine by me- last night was a little scary.
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08-03-2009, 09:44 PM
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#209
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#1 Goaltender
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Darn, it's gone. Quiet and no rain in teh NW
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08-03-2009, 10:23 PM
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#210
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: Calgary
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Quote:
Originally Posted by evilcougar
It's coming down pretty good over here in the SE (near peigan tr). The lightning is pretty cool. A couple pretty awesome cracks of thunder. I love thunderstorms!
I'm also thankful i have underground parking.
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I'll stick to my regular garage. I've seen this happen a few times... 
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08-03-2009, 10:26 PM
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#211
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Ironhorse
I'll stick to my regular garage. I've seen this happen a few times...
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True that. Thankfully that hasn't happened in my parkade yet, and hopefully not for the length of time i plan to live here.
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08-03-2009, 10:35 PM
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#212
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Franchise Player
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Hearing drops here in Panorama, nothing major yet.
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08-03-2009, 11:03 PM
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#213
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First Line Centre
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Had some good lighting about an hour ago out in Chestermere, been raining good and hard for the last 2 hours here too.
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08-03-2009, 11:15 PM
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#214
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Draft Pick
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Calgary
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That thunderstorm would have been my very first Western Canada thunderstorm, if I had not have slept through it. My poor mother, who is also new to the province, did not.
(ps this is my first time in calgary, first post, first calgary forum, if someone could be proud of me it would really boost my self esteem, thanks).
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08-04-2009, 05:49 AM
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#215
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Apparently we are in for a bad week. Calling for a lot of rain every day and if it keeps up like it's going right now, flooding won't be a surprise. For the past twenty minutes up near the University it's been an all-out pour fest.
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08-04-2009, 05:56 AM
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#216
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Lifetime Suspension
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Edmonton
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Is it true that hiding under a tree is the worst thing you can do to protect yourself from getting hit by lightning?
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08-04-2009, 06:24 AM
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#217
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One of the Nine
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Freeway
Driving back home this morning, I noticed a TON of tree branches littered around the west side of the city.
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Quote:
Originally Posted by hixxes
Just got back from camping to find a tree top in the street in front of my neighbours place (and a bit of mine). Unfortunately for him a rather large branch smashed his windshield and left a couple nasty dents on his hood and roof. He's getting back from France tonight so will be in for quite the surprise.
Who's responsibility is it to remove the downed tree? The tree is from his neighbour's property so I'm assuming it's the landowner's responsibility. Or will the city remove it since it's blocking half the street?
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Went to BC for the weekend and when I got back last night I had to drive a friend home to Bowness. It looked like a war zone up there.
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08-04-2009, 06:59 AM
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#218
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^ Hurricane force winds upwards of 120km per hour. I don't normally get awoken by anything, including downpours, so I knew it was bad when the wind woke me up. Yeah, there are tree branches snapped off everywhere around here and leaves all scattered about in the roads.
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08-04-2009, 07:08 AM
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#219
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One of the Nine
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My friend is an arborist. I suspect his phone will be ringing all day.
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08-04-2009, 07:21 AM
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#220
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Calgary
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Sly
Is it true that hiding under a tree is the worst thing you can do to protect yourself from getting hit by lightning?
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Yes, Lightning strikes the highest point possible, so if you stand next to a tree, you are standing right next to a higher point that you are.
If you are in a field, hit the dirt.
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