06-03-2014, 11:04 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Oklahoma - Where they call a puck a ball...
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Originally Posted by Delgar
I'm in Signal Hill and enjoyed every second of it but it was tame compared to what I became used to growing up. In Medicine Hat thunderstorms are spectacular. Here they are an occasional pleasure. I enjoyed the brief thunder and lightning though.
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Yeah pretty tame to what I'm used to as well... of course storms take on a whole new meaning this time of year in Oklahoma. Moving to Calgary has paid dividends this spring. Sure I have been cold for the first 6 months of being here but I made through an April and May without being apprehensive about 'Naders. Now if it would just stay between 20-25 for the next 8 months, I'd be happy.
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06-03-2014, 11:05 PM
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#22
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First Line Centre
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Pretty sure it's hovering right above Cranston now. Crazy lightning and thunder cracks every few seconds. Wind is shaking the entire house.
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06-03-2014, 11:08 PM
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#23
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Originally Posted by nickerjones
Yeah pretty tame to what I'm used to as well... of course storms take on a whole new meaning this time of year in Oklahoma. Moving to Calgary has paid dividends this spring. Sure I have been cold for the first 6 months of being here but I made through an April and May without being apprehensive about 'Naders. Now if it would just stay between 20-25 for the next 8 months, I'd be happy.
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06-03-2014, 11:18 PM
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Scoring Winger
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In Deer Run and the storm got pretty aggressive... even saw some spiraling lightning, or at least it looked like it spiraled... it was pretty cool
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06-03-2014, 11:35 PM
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Retired
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Originally Posted by nickerjones
Yeah pretty tame to what I'm used to as well... of course storms take on a whole new meaning this time of year in Oklahoma. Moving to Calgary has paid dividends this spring. Sure I have been cold for the first 6 months of being here but I made through an April and May without being apprehensive about 'Naders. Now if it would just stay between 20-25 for the next 8 months, I'd be happy.
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Yeah those storms are on a level I have never seen. In Medicine Hat they were noisy and violent but not in a tornado sense, winds don't usually come with it. They were extremely loud and the crack of the thunder following the lightning would be so loud its hard to describe, but once you lived through it a few years you learned to still feel safe and just enjoy it. You'd learn to count the seconds between the lightning and the thunder and when it came it literally could make you jump out of your bed. Good times.
What I heard tonight just reminded me of it, but it was really tame compared to what it can be.
Last edited by Kjesse; 06-03-2014 at 11:38 PM.
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06-03-2014, 11:37 PM
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Ha, didn't notice a thing in Marda Loop. Blinds are shut and maybe TV was too loud.
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06-03-2014, 11:54 PM
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#28
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Voted for Kodos
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Saw some lightning here, but very little thunder.
Read on twitter about people seeing this really cool storm, now I'm a bit disappointed.
Thunderstorms make up a number of my good memories from days past.
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06-04-2014, 12:03 AM
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#29
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Now world wide!
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Storms and chinooks: two of the things I miss most about Calgary.
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06-04-2014, 12:07 AM
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CP Gamemaster
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: The Gary
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At least in Canyon Meadows the rain was really intense. Having lived in Kelowna for a long time, I never got experience good thunderstorms so this was definitely near the top of the list for me. The constant lightning was really neat.
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06-04-2014, 12:11 AM
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Backup Goalie
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: SE Calgary!!!
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Lightening struck very close to my house in Auburn Bay (shook the whole thing and lit up my whole living room). Good times.
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06-04-2014, 12:21 AM
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#32
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Powerplay Quarterback
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Calgary
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Originally Posted by Caged Great
It's nasty up in Patterson as well.
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Also, they had a huge rain storm.
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06-04-2014, 12:27 AM
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#33
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Powerplay Quarterback
Join Date: Dec 2008
Location: Calgary
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I grew up in Medicine Hat as well, and miss the storms like crazy. Nowhere does lightning quite like southeastern Alberta.
Edmonton's storms are no good.
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06-04-2014, 12:32 AM
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#34
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Calgary
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Wanted to get some lightning photos taken off my balcony. Got all wet and thoroughly disappointed. No good shots...
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06-04-2014, 12:37 AM
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Lifetime Suspension
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Thunder and wind shook the house for a while.. but just chilled out with my head phones on catching up on some shows like it was nbd. Wasn't much compared to a few dandies I've had here over the past couple summers. Southwest of the city I'm in the path of just about every storm coming over the mountains/foothills. Had lightning strike two different neighbours' yards in that time. The odd Alberta tropical rainstorm isn't too bothersome anymore.
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06-04-2014, 01:37 AM
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Join Date: Sep 2012
Location: St. George's, Grenada
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Sad that I didn't hear any thunder. Saw the light show in the distance and jumped in the car and tried to drive further south to get a better look but the closer I got the further the storm moved.
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06-04-2014, 07:30 AM
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#37
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Calgary
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It woke me up, I knew I should have gotten up and checked it out over downtown but I was just to lazy and went back to bed.
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06-04-2014, 08:21 AM
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#38
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Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Income Tax Central
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Well. That was disappointing.
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06-04-2014, 09:46 AM
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#39
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In the Sin Bin
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Originally Posted by CaptainYooh
Wanted to get some lightning photos taken off my balcony. Got all wet and thoroughly disappointed. No good shots...
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I managed to snap this one.
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06-04-2014, 09:55 AM
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Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Crowsnest Pass
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In West Hillhurst we were surrounded by crazy lightning around 11:00 pm. To the North and to the South of us. The wind blew a lot of blossoms off the trees.
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