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Originally Posted by jinx (Post 666182)

I swear my car is a bigger shit magnet than my husband.

I don't quite know what to do with this quote yet, but I love it :lol:

Did you catch the full moon last night ?
We've had only a couple of cloudless nights all year and it was a treat.

Yesterday was the first really warm day this season here in PDX, and once our resident morning clouds move on we should have another very nice summer day.

Oh yes, the dog is getting over it's kennel cough, so all's right in our world.

Wow, I've never seen storm damage like this. I drove all over Chester County today, trying to get to/from the gym thru the maze of downed trees and power lines and closed roads. Power is still out on many areas - tons of lines down with no one even working on them yet. Apparently lightning caused 3 house fires in the area. I saw one house with a tree laying on it, and read there there are quite a few more just like it.

rained again today. cloudy all day. cool, 60s. I miss summer already.

I had heard 70mph winds, but they might have hit 90. Whook.

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In all, about 350,000 customers lost power as a result of that line of thunderstorms that flashed through the region at lightning speed on Thursday, ripping apart trees from Glenmoore, Chester County, to Hammonton, N.J., and generating winds rarely experienced around here. Gusts reached 75 m.p.h. in Philadelphia, 60, in Camden County, and perhaps 90 in Chester County.

Some of the winds might have hit 90 m.p.h. in Chester County, where Glenmoore was particularly hard hit, said Gigi. "That's just as strong as the winds get around here."
The 215,000 service interruptions in the PECO territory made this one of the biggest outage events ever - No. 11 on the all-time list. About 130,000 Public Service Gas & Electric customers lost power.

Why were the winds so ferocious?
The amazing rapidity of the storms' movement - 55 m.p.h. - certainly was a factor, as was the heat, since storms are fueled by warm air from the surface rising over cooler air. But just as the heat reached a peak in the afternoon and the official thermometer at Philadelphia International Airport hit 97, the highest reading since June 10, 2008, drier air moved in at mid-levels of the atmosphere, said Tony Gigi, a storm specialist at the National Weather Service office in Mount Holly.
As the downdraft rain fell into the drier air, some of it evaporated. When water evaporates, it gives off a cooling effect; that's basically how sweating cools the body. In this case, the massive amount of evaporation gave an extra kick to the downdraft winds, which billowed the tarp at Citizens Bank Park, where the Phillies were hosting Cleveland.
The Philadelphia temperature plummeted 26 degrees within an hour right before the rains arrived, and the airport measured a 75 m.p.h. gust.

Wow, Jinx! You guys back East have all the fun. Out here in the desert Southwest it won't dare to rain until the monsoon season in August. Meanwhile highs in the 90's and humidity non-existant.

Hardly any damage here, but I think the last lot probably got anything that was good for the getting.....

Thousands in this area won't be getting power restored until late Sunday, meanwhile, mid 90's and humid.
Coming back from Blue Ball, I tried to avoid traffic by taking back roads through Chester and Delaware Counties. Big mistake.

Jinx, I now understand why you might like a vehicle that could climb a tree. wow.

IT IS FUCKING HOT HERE== that is all.

holey moley :eek:

jinx and lj, I'm sure you've used up all of your bad luck for the next 10 years.

Nah, we were very nearly unscathed. The people with crushed cars and houses, and those still without electricity had the real bad luck.
Pieces of a building/roof in Philly took out a whole block of cars...
We only have street trees here - the places around with big tall trees will be cleaning up for a long time.

;) A very good perspective to have.

With the economy today, and after having panic attacks yesterday, I too had to think of the positive, as if thinking about people with mortgages foreclosing and people exhausting their 401 ks, have to be in way more stress than I.
I at least do not have as far to fall as some.

That is my weather report. Fair to partly cloudy. lol

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Originally Posted by jinx (Post 666385)

I drove all over Chester County today, trying to get to/from the gym

this is why I love jinx.

I also love her coz she gave me sox.

Cashmere sox.