CaliKat
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Posted: May 22 2008,10:04 pm |
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What a day! 
I took Mom to Costco this afternoon. While we were inside all hell broke loose, you could hear the rain, wind and thunder inside Costco..and we all know how noisy that place is. Got thru checkout and headed toward the door, which was jammed up with people waiting out the rain. It wasn't getting any better and I don't like being mushed by crowds, so we went out to the car. The parking lot was a river. In order to get to the car I had to cross an area with water rushing well over my ankles. Threw the stuff in the trunk, grabbed mom and we jumped in. The main exit was jammed so I headed the opposite way, figuring I'd whip a U turn up the road. Water was raging down the road, lightning was striking all over the place, it was hailing like mad and visibility was nil, so I pulled back into the parking lot. When it didn't let up I decided I wanted to try to get home before all the roads were impassable. I took surface streets since the 210 was already flooding, but the surface streets were completely under water too. It was pretty scary. It finally lightened up when we got close to home...until all hell broke loose again. I could see the lightning strikes hitting all around us...and then there was this great big BOOM that sent me flying out of my chair. Lightning hit a transformer down the street and it blew up. The fire department was racing to another call and saw the fire so they diverted. The street was blocked off for a few hours, not sure if it is opened yet or not.
Sure glad this didn't happen yesterday when i was hiking around Puddingstone Resevoir.
"This is for all the friends I've known, this is for all the ones who've never left me alone. This is for all the ones I've lost along the way...thanks for being a part of today."
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7-02-2026 Three Word Post.....The Next Generation.... (Rep.#20,222) from: GoFastRacer
Done with Winter 
He won't get rid of it but at least it blew down 
Get the Ark... 
Everyone was talking to each other, helping each other out since they were only on emergency lighting at that point. And some guy (maybe a costco employee) was handing out garbage bags so folks could cover their purchases and/or themselves.
