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We had flash flood warnings all day, we just had a Lieutenant Dan style thunderstorm. Here’s the radar:

I took a video, but started the camera the wrong way, so 3/4 of the video is sideways, but it’s the sound and lightning that matter:

In the local parlance, that’s what is known as a gullywasher. More accurately, a “gullywersher.”

All pets are inside and accounted for.

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  2. 2.

    LAO

    Well, that was a pretty cool video. My idiot dog is now hiding under my bed.

    Hope you don’t get washed away John.

  7. 7.

    evodevo

    Yup .. the REAL line of thunderstorms is just to the west of us in central Ky … just what I need … MORE RAIN !

  8. 8.

    Shell

    Man, Spring is just f**king with us. We’re supposed to get more snow by the end of the week.

  9. 9.

    Schlemazel

    Out here on the tundra we just got 8 inches of very wet, very heavy snow. More is predicted for Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

  10. 10.

    JPL

    It’s 73 now and tomorrow the high is suppose to be 58. The storms move in over night.

  13. 13.

    WaterGirl

    We had a crazy thunderstorm earlier today – kind of unusual timing, seems like those tend to happen later in the day or the evening – but it’s calm now.

    I am not calm, though, because my cable TV appears to be out, and that’s how my broken ankle and I spend my evenings these days, I got about 9 minutes into NCIS and then it stopped recording and can’t get any channels at all. So far, I have spent 35 minutes listening to how important my call is to Comcast. So annoying!

    Sorry for whining!

  14. 14.

    Currants

    Gorgeous storm! We’ve got sleet and rain up here, no fireworks.
    ETA “here” being eastern MA

  15. 15.

    NotMax

    Heavy, noisy, pelting, sloppy rain and flash flooding here Monday. Respite today then back to mucho wetness rolling through for the remainder of the week and weekend.

    Oh, afore I forget again, happy 50% off Easter candy week, everyone!

  17. 17.

    JPL

    @WaterGirl: I have no idea why you are concerned about expressing your annoyances on this blog. I thought that was why John started it in the first place.

  19. 19.

    debit

    @Schlemazel: I have shoveled so many times today. Every time I finish, the plow throws it right back up, wetter and heavier than before. I just want to cry.

  20. 20.

    frosty

    Note to juicers. We don’t know where “here” is. Give us a clue, people! As for South PA, heavy fog coming home from work, gray, drizzly. We had one gorgeous, sunny, blue sky, mid-60s day last week. I wouldn’t mind a few more of them.

  23. 23.

    Bemused senior

    Expecting large amounts of rain dumped by the pineapple Express come Friday. Warm,70 degree rain all over the SF Bay area, but especially the north Bay.

  25. 25.

    eclare

    Here in Memphis, the high today was around 77, supposed to get down to the 30’s tonight. I expected a big storm to come through starting about 7, but so far not much at all, looks like most is going south.

  26. 26.

    WaterGirl

    @JPL: Funny. I often express frustration, but I hope I’m mostly successful at staying away from the whiny end of the spectrum. But Comcast tech support makes me crazy – I think they might have the worst tech support anywhere.

  29. 29.

    Steeplejack

    @WaterGirl:

    Since you’ve got some time on your hands . . . how exactly did you break your ankle? I missed the back-story on that.

  30. 30.

    Mike J

    Sposed to rain until next week here, but temps in the 50s and 60s . But I don’t know what a Lt Dan storm means.

    ETA: 50-60s down here where people live, 6-11″ snow in the passes.

  31. 31.

    NotMax

    Cute-ish subtitle typo in a program about German-funded film production in occupied France during WW2.

    “Goebbels instructed him to produce empty films, films that put people to spleep.”

  34. 34.

    eemom

    Cole, don’t you know it’s uncool to quote Forrest Gump?

    Anyway, this weather sucks great big ugly rhinoceros dicks. April my ass.

  35. 35.

    debbie

    That’s the storm that swept through here a couple hours ago. Plenty of hail and tornado sirens, but no actual funnel clouds. The second wave is here, bringing colder temperatures.

  37. 37.

    eclare

    @Lapassionara: Yeah, I was too, in my mom’s tummy. I recorded the HBO documentary that was shown last night but I haven’t watched it yet. The Mountaintop speech, he knew.

  40. 40.

    Karen Potter

    In Maine, almost to NH; we have had winter storm warnings all day. So far nothing but south wind.

  45. 45.

    raven

    @eclare: Imagine what it was like in a small unit in the fucking boonies where there was already a decent amount of racial tension.

  46. 46.

    dexwood

    You fuckers and your weather complaints… we had 11 inches of sunshine in this here Southwestern state. You don’t hear me cryin’ about it. You try shoveling that! Buck up.

  47. 47.

    Schlemazel

    @debit:
    It was so wet that the snow blower just clogs so I ended up doing it by hand. I am gonna be really sore tomorrow

  51. 51.

    efgoldman

    @RPh:

    At this point we’ll be lucky to see Spring-ish weather by tax day

    First robin on my lawn today

  53. 53.

    Mnemosyne

    @Bemused senior:

    We’ll be getting that in So Cal over the weekend. I know people think it’s weak sauce when we complain about rain, but we already had 20+ people die in mudslides in Santa Barbara County (mostly Montecito) because massive fires + massive rain = massive mudslides.

  54. 54.

    NotMax

    @japa21

    Also too, Viva Bris Vegas. And, I believe, tokyokie. Can’t ferget Iowa Old Lady (before the change to IRL).

    It’s an open bet whether on any given day Steve in the ATL is actually in Ypsilanti, Wall Walla or Timbuctu.

    ;)

  55. 55.

    debbie

    A neighbor’s running his leaf blower now. I can’t imagine why; everything’s so wet.

  56. 56.

    Schlemazel

    @japa21:
    sadly the court will still be 4-3 with nutjobs in control but it is a start & should spread more FUD inside the GOP

  57. 57.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @raven: it was my dad’s 25th birthday. He was still in school and had arranged to pick up an AA friend to go out for a b-day dinner. The guy lived in a house full of AA activists, so my dad had my mom and I (I was three) wait in the car while he went to the door. The guy who answered the door didn’t know my dad so he went and got another dude who looked at him and said, “he’s okay. He picked up his buddy and got out of there. He said everyone was armed to the teeth. They weren’t planning on starting anything, but they were going to be ready if someone else did.

  58. 58.

    WaterGirl

    @Steeplejack: It was all the fault of my fucking vacuum cleaner!

    It was exactly 2 weeks after Henry’s ACL surgery and Tucker was going to come home that day. So I decided to vacuum the carpet in the room Henry and I were going to be residing in for the duration. So I am wheeling my upright vacuum cleaner down the two steps into the sunroom (not the porch) and the vacuum clearer slipped off the step, with the vacuum cleaner going one way and me going the other. I was on the side with the heavy tV stand made of metal and wood. IT all happened too fast to be sure of anything, but I’m sure I must have cracked my ankle against the TV stand.

  62. 62.

    Mnemosyne

    I sent an email to my favorite geek t-shirt site asking where their Shuri t-shirt designs are.

    They have a license from Marvel and a big geek girl fan base, so I’m assuming they’re just behind on getting their approvals. Still, I sent them an enthusiastic email to ask them to start selling those ASAP.

  66. 66.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @japa21: The eliminate the state treasurer and let the Lt Gov do shit thing seems to be going down hard as well.

  67. 67.

    Lapassionara

    @Omnes Omnibus: I was living there then. I was a grad student, and being white and female, I did whatever little I could to support the striking garbage workers. They were amazing, as was the community that backed them. They were and are amazing.

  68. 68.

    dexwood

    @JPL:
    Nah, grew up in Baltimore. Way different crap to walk through. We had the Whistling Weirdo offering us rides.

  69. 69.

    NotMax

    Stopped procrastinating and changed to a different channel on the router as the internet connection has been intermittently pokey of late. So far, so better (knock wood).

  71. 71.

    japa21

    @Omnes Omnibus: Bodes well for November. Is Walker up for reelection this year? Would be sweet to see both him and Ryan kicked to the curb.

    ETA AP just called it for Dallet.

  72. 72.

    Gravenstone

    O/T but promising – Rebecca Dallet (aka, not the wingnut) won the WI Supreme Court seat.

  74. 74.

    dexwood

    @eclare:
    Wish we had some rain to beat back the long term drought. We’re looking at the possibility of severe fire danger.

  75. 75.

    Lapassionara

    @raven: I can’t imagine that, but I still feel the steel hard closing of a door in my heart when I heard that news.

  81. 81.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    Vox
    Liberals just won a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court by a huge margin

    Woo hoo! I recall a big WI judicial election (I don’t remember if it was the state SC) a couple of years ago when the Dems didn’t even have a candidate

  82. 82.

    Schlemazel

    @Omnes Omnibus:
    was done there for a hockey game & wsa going to a celebration after. Thought we would stop & pick up some wine but the stores were all closed. I thought “IS THIS REALLY WISCONSIN?”. I understand why they would want to pretend they aren’t but I thought that was an odd choice. Do you think it is because it is a college town?

  87. 87.

    eclare

    @dexwood: Yeah, of the two I guess I’d rather have too much rain, just because of the risk of fire. Plus I know eventually we’ll get to summer, and then there will be no rain.

  89. 89.

    Schlemazel

    @Omnes Omnibus:
    I heard an interview with their boy in the race. “My opponent is using East Coast money to bring Hollywood values to Wisconsin”. GACK! I wanted to reach through the radio and slap the uvula right out of his throat.

  91. 91.

    Steeplejack

    @WaterGirl:

    Yeow! Sorry to hear it. I had a bad ankle sprain in college that had me on crutches for a while, so I can relate. Not fun hobbling all over campus to get to classes. (Jeez, I had forgotten that part until just now.)

  92. 92.

    Sixstringfanatic

    Here in central Indiana, we had an inch and half or so of heavy, wet snow Sunday night. Today we got high temps in the mid-60’s, over 3 1/2 inches of rain, wind, tornado warnings, all the same fun stuff that Cole is dealing with. Tomorrow? High temps won’t even break 40 degrees.
    I am seriously considering taking a cordless drill to my sinuses.

  94. 94.

    Joeg

    Dayton Oh:
    Monday morning – 3 inches snow
    Monday afternoon – all gone. 45 degrees
    Tuesday noon – 70 degrees
    Tuesday 3pm – Tornado warnings, torrential downpours, thunder
    Tuesday 9pm – no rain still hear thunder
    Wednesday – 25mph and higher winds, evening flurries.

    We’re about 4 hours west of John. We’ll probably end up with one week of a nice Spring then humidity and skeeters. For some reason the Wright Brothers stayed here and did some cool things a long time ago.

  97. 97.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Omnes Omnibus: it wasn’t the SC race– it would’ve been after the Kloppenberg-Bradley race (which I looked up)– I swear I remember a statewide race without a Dem candidate, because people were blaming Obama for not developing state parties

  98. 98.

    Omnes Omnibus

    Dallet is leading in some unlikely counties. If it holds, it is a really good sign.

  100. 100.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: Kloppenberg never ran against Bradley. She ran against Prosser. I voted for her to keep her job today. Seriously, come up with a cite for it. I follow elections here fairly closely and I have no memory of such a thing. Did someone in Waukesha County run unopposed? Possibly. There are precincts in Milwaukee where no R will run. But at the state level? I doubt it.

  101. 101.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @japa21: She is ahead in Oneida County. Things like that are what are amazing me. My family’s cabin is there. It is deer hunting central.

    ETA: I have no doubt now that she will win. It is the lead in unexpected places that is surprising me.

  103. 103.

    japa21

    @Omnes Omnibus: And the counties she’s losing are much closer than they should be. That is what gives us hope for November. Any good Dems in the running for Gov?

  105. 105.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @japa21:

    Any good Dems in the running for Gov?

    The primary isn’t until August. What happened today will encourage some people to jump in.

  107. 107.

    Another Scott

    Zooks. It looks like you’ve got more bands of thunderstorms heading your way, JC. Maybe they’ll start to die off before they reach you.

    https://radar.weather.gov/Conus/full_loop.php?x=38

    Fingers crossed for everyone in the path.

    Cheers,
    Scott.
    (“They’re talking about a chance of snow here in NoVA this weekend… :-/”)

  108. 108.

    Steve in the ATL

    @frosty: ironically, I am home this week. Was supposed to fly to San Francisco today for a three day hearing but the NLRB postponed it owing to union shenanigans. Which surprised me, as they usually let unions get away with shit.

  109. 109.

    Scott Alloway

    @Omnes Omnibus: Yeah, but it’s the bottom of the ninth, three on base, nobody out, and the three, four, five hitters coming up for the Dems. Bye bye Wisconsin Goopers.

  111. 111.

    Steeplejack

    @bk:

    Whut? Highs in the upper 80s the rest of the week. But my custom weather page is showing 71° in Las Vegas right now.

  112. 112.

    Nelle in Kansas

    A good friend is running for Congress in northern Wisconsin for the chance to defeat Sean Duffy (7th District). Feel free to look up Brian Sweet and toss him some money. His first wife, who died of cancer, was my beat friend and I’ve vacationed with him and his second wife. He’s a doc who wants go work on health care issues and he’s got a heart for social justice.

  115. 115.

    Jackie

    @Steeplejack: I bought the “45” and played it for my Dad. He truly appreciated it. 1968. He was already a staunch Democrat – I don’t think until that moment he realized how much America’s youth was fully aware of what was going on. I had just turned 13 a week before Bobby was assassinated. That, along with MLK jr’s assassination made a huge impression on me. That was the beginning of the next 50 yrs of us discussing and debating politics. I just lost him, at the age of 99.5 yrs last month.
    I have no idea who to discuss politics with now.

  116. 116.

    Jackie

    @Steeplejack: I bought the “45” and played it for my Dad. He truly appreciated it. 1968. He was already a staunch Democrat – I don’t think until that moment he realized how much America’s youth was fully aware of what was going on. I had just turned 13 a week before Bobby was assassinated. Thatt, along with MLK jr’s assassination made a huge impression on me. That was the beginning of the next 50 yrs of us discussing and debating politics. I just lost him, at the age of 99.5 yrs last month.
    I have no idea who to discuss politics with now.

  117. 117.

    Steeplejack

    @Jackie:

    Well, this is a good place to discuss politics. In real life you might have to do a little searching.

    One happy association I have with that song is that it always reminds me of three girls in my high school crowd, inseparable friends who came to be known collectively by their surnames—Anderson, Martin and Thom.

  118. 118.

    mainmata

    @frosty: “South PA” also not very iluminating. Could be Phillie, Breezewood, Johnstown, Washington, etc. Just sayin’.

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