STORM2K

The last 2 days in Kendall have been horrible rain, but today I was driving home in it and I could hear the pelts of the hail hitting the car.. I felt like I was driving through a tropical storm (though that may not be a stretch with 60+ mile per hour wind and nickel/quarter sized hail!) Wasn't fun that's for sure.. and needless to say zero visability..

Sure hope you did the right thing and pulled in some safe place and waited for the storm to pass,right??..

hial2 wrote:Sure hope you did the right thing and pulled in some safe place and waited for the storm to pass,right??..

The "father" gene...sorry...

The same thing happened to me but without the hail. I could even see the bands of rain moving through. It was an amazing experience. Fortunately I was close to my home. The funny thing is that in the heavy rain, I couldn't see anything and I was so excited that I started to laugh. The wind was very strong also.

The lighting was incredible with that severe thunderstorm today...I was able to record a short video from the lighting before it got to dangerous.

Short clip of lighting over my house

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98kOp6PzBDY[/youtube]

Cool video, it was like steady rumbling the whole 3 minutes. We aren't the lightening captial of the world for nothing.

incredible! At 2:12 it actually strikes your front yard!

I just noticed that watching the video three times that was an incredible strike.

artist wrote:incredible! At 2:12 it actually strikes your front yard!

Wow I hadn't noticed that either the first time. Wasn't a full blown bolt but enough to freak you out.

Windstorm, were you aware of that while you were shooting?

Oh wow! I kept replaying the yard strike too! Do you realize how lucky you were to not get hurt?

artist wrote:incredible! At 2:12 it actually strikes your front yard!

I'd think a strike right in front of you would make a much bigger splash.

Wow guys i really didn't notice that when i was filming but after looking threw video and pauseing it the lighting looks to have stuck right in front of me or on the sidewalk a few feet away. Adrian

Having said that those lighting strikes look to be about a mile away atleast in my opinion.

artist wrote:incredible! At 2:12 it actually strikes your front yard!

No it didn't; it's just an internal lens reflection in the camera. It happens quite a bit with lightning videography.

yeah that was just a reflection that caused the "phantom" strike. If the bolt would have really struck right there then you (windstorm99) would have likely been injured in some way (either from the heat, the sudden load thunder, or actual electric shock).

Too bad I don't have any video on youtube. Some of my lightning video would knock your socks off. Based upon the flash to bang time, the CG was about a mile away.

Steve

Windy wrote:

artist wrote:incredible! At 2:12 it actually strikes your front yard!

No it didn't; it's just an internal lens reflection in the camera. It happens quite a bit with lightning videography.

Yeah, when you look, the top of the bolt is actually coming from the car's back tire . . . so that would be some mean static electricity at best . . .

Windy wrote:

artist wrote:incredible! At 2:12 it actually strikes your front yard!

No it didn't; it's just an internal lens reflection in the camera. It happens quite a bit with lightning videography.

Do you mean that this is a reflection of a lightning bolt somewhere else in the sky, that makes it appear to strike in the front yard?

Too bad the youtube video was blocky... looked like a nice storm though!!