JeffreyLebowski
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Yeah, a fairly intense, but very small cell went through here... It poured for like 5 minutes, lol.. And some of the lightning/thunder were less than 2 seconds a part.Originally posted by: swtethan
im in se pdx and i heard it, i figured it was close. really loud though, like a massive car crash
Originally posted by: AgaBoogaBoo
Hehe, I mention it every now and then when I get a chance, it's a great way to start a conversation if it includes him in any wayOriginally posted by: silverpig
Originally posted by: AgaBoogaBoo
No, but I hope people don't think I'm an attention whore for saying this, but my dad was struck in 05 from lightning and thankfully survived with no injuries. He was very lucky, unfortunately he didn't win the lottery ticket he bought though.
Geez, quit bragging about it.
Well, while he was struck, the electricity went from his shoulder through his hand and a huge bolt came from the tip of his hand in a horizontal manner and hit his friend who was next to him (he was pointing at him) and his friend fell backwards onto a bench completely frozen. My dad was conscious throughout this but couldn't imagine what happened, his hands turned a complete white, to purple I believe, and we're indian so we're brown to begin with.Originally posted by: bonkers325
Originally posted by: AgaBoogaBoo
Hehe, I mention it every now and then when I get a chance, it's a great way to start a conversation if it includes him in any wayOriginally posted by: silverpig
Originally posted by: AgaBoogaBoo
No, but I hope people don't think I'm an attention whore for saying this, but my dad was struck in 05 from lightning and thankfully survived with no injuries. He was very lucky, unfortunately he didn't win the lottery ticket he bought though.
Geez, quit bragging about it.
does your father exhibit any superpowers? increased speed, electricity shooting out from his appendages, etc.?
Nothing crazy like that, I asked if he could remember things differently now (photographic memory) or if there's any changes, but nothing he's noticed.Originally posted by: lozina
Isn't he supposed to have super powers now? Like, is he an intellectual genius now?Originally posted by: AgaBoogaBoo
No, but I hope people don't think I'm an attention whore for saying this, but my dad was struck in 05 from lightning and thankfully survived with no injuries. He was very lucky, unfortunately he didn't win the lottery ticket he bought though.
Originally posted by: m1ldslide1
So the gf and I are sitting in our living room during a lightning storm. A bolt seemed to hit in the yard right outside the house - with a HUGE crack sound and a big flash and us feeling like we just got hit in the chest. It put us both on the floor. Scared the sh!t out of us - it really seemed to hit our house. Soon after people were spilling in the streets trying to figure out where it hit. I turned on the news and they said "a lightning bolt hit the portland metro area - you all probably saw it and everybody's riled up" or something like that. It's amazing how gnarly those things are that it hit the air above the area and the entire city hit the deck.
Anybody else in portland metro experience this?
Originally posted by: swtethan
im in se pdx and i heard it, i figured it was close. really loud though, like a massive car crash
Originally posted by: Syrch
When i was living at my parents house still and we were still on dial up i decided to go online during a lightning storm in florida. The second the modem start to make its noises (you remember the dial up days) lightning hit straight down the window of my room (i was 3 ft from it) and the phone line. I heard the loudest bang i've ever heard and then what sounded like my monitor blowing up. I sat there for half a second thinking i was covered in glass from my monitor and then opened my eyes and saw the monitor was fine. I ran out of the room to the banister of the upstairs and my mom yelled "WHAT THE HELL DID YOU DO"? I was shaking like crazy and said..i don't know. then i looked to down at the wall and saw the outlet there had been blown out of the wall which lead my eyes to the hall way i just ran through and saw it was covered in glass from the light bulbs from both the bathroom and the hallway yet i didn't have a single cut on my bare feet. I to this day remember that so vividly it still raises the hair on my back.