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[susandennis]

My baseball game was just interrupted by this. Thunderstorms around here are very rare but this kind of chicken little warning is ever more rare.



It's 5:04pm now. It's smokey-ish out now but the sun was out until a few minutes ago.

I've lived in parts of the country where we had thunderstorms every evening all summer long, interrupting TV this way would have pissed those people off fast.


I do get amused when Northwest weather people warn people about thunder - not lightening but thunder. I'm serious, thunderstorms just don't happen around here.

Comments

[adminbear.livejournal.com]

I live in a suburb of Dallas and we get those damned warnings all the time. I grew up and they didn't do them and we all survived just fine. I don't understand why we have to be told the obvious.

[meowmensteen]

I wasn't watching TV, so I found out because I..... heard thunders. Two of them. Two whole thunders.

[adafrog.livejournal.com]

Weird.

[mhaithaca.livejournal.com]

Around here, the National Weather Service warns us that if we're close enough to hear the thunder, we're close enough to be struck by the lightning. We had some doozies last month! The accompanying wind and hail tend to be what do the damage to trees (and thus power lines) and roofs, but people stuck outside can still be hit by lightning.

[rsc.livejournal.com]

We get those warnings during games now and then, but they're usually in a crawl rather than actually interrupting the broadcast. On the other hand, sometimes we'll be watching some program that we recored and discover that the network or (more likely) the local affiliate decided that some piece of Breaking! News! is too important to save until an ad break, and some crucial bit of plot gets obliterated.