Heavy Storms

Unfortunately, and very sad to learn of this news, just north of here a 17 year old was struck and killed by lightning, along the river, near the tie down piers.

I looked around yesterday, quite a few trees & limbs damgaged, chainsaw will get a workout this week. The fields we have that have been let overgrown had young birch trees in them, a young forest, damage was worse close to the bottom of the valley, many bent over, the woods look like a real mess now, top of the ridge, about 650 feet above sea level, a few limbs is all, I thought that being the high ground would have been where the most damage was. Apparently this was the hardest hit area, we're all due sometime, and I guess that is one way to find all the weak limbs, funny how all the dead elms, are still standing with nothing fallen below.

jeff

jeff

To our north, east, south, and even friggin' west but we have some bubble over our town -- every single system has broken to the north or south by a town. At least one of the buggers reformed a few miles to the east and began raining again!

Walt

You need to figure out how to bottle it up and send it back up here to the panhandle - about 1 inch at a time! ha...

Glad to hear the damage wasn't too severe...

Howard

I think the worst here was the power outage inconvenience, I've been up well over 24 hours now and am darned tired. Towards the end of the day yesterday, was getting things wrapped up for the day, and you could just hear that classic storm, just marchin it's way in, closer and closer, those are the ones that are the worst, the lighting strikes were just relentless,b and al over the horizon, getting closer very quickly from the first audible ones were heard. It took all day for those thunderheads to form up and boy they did. I knew unlike many isolated ones that have missed us lately, this one was a direct hit. Blew out the glass in my bedroom window, I had to hold a piece of plexi glass to stop most of the water from coming in, 1/2 hour worth of that, saw lots of strikes, kind of ticke me off, being up on a hill, you get a good view of the storms, I could not leave that spot until it let up and the wind changed. Did not hear of anyone getting hurt here either, trees and limbs falling have killed several people in the last few years during storms like this.

Where in NY are you located? I live down in the Southern Tier near Binghamton. We got the first significant rain in over three weeks yesterday where I live, right on the NY/PA border. Some thunder and lightning but generally, a nice, slow soaker. For the past few weeks, the storms have gone all around us and on some occasions, I would see rain line across the road where the storm had stopped travelling. Glad I'm not down in Sullivan or Delaware Counties; those poor folks really got it last week and were forecast to get it again yesterday.