It all started last night 6-3-09 about 8:00 PST, had a whole bunch of thunder storms coming up from the south, Jannie got some decent shots, my battery took a dump, lightning was everywhere, watched till we got rained out. In California, yesterday in a 24 hr period, we had 6,247 lightning strikes, with about 55 small fires. When I heard the hail at about 4:30 am pst, I knew something was going "Off" again, things were quiet, dark, we had no power, Hey it's the country we live with this ! Started raining cats and dogs, thunder , lightning the whole thing "again" on the way to work saw this, stopped took some shots, on the way home stopped again, took some more. We know the people who live in the house, haven't talked to them, bet it was a rude awakening. cd


To anyone who has visited this site "dial-up " has failed me big time, there are 19 shots in this set, only 13 have posted, going to try to finish the set. cd

WOW!!! jennye · 2009-06-05: 03:18

Wow, the power of nature - fantastic shots! jet28 · 2009-06-05: 08:13

That's frightening...sounds like an incredible storm. Takes scenes like this to see how powerful a lighting strike can be Stay safe! lookagain · 2009-06-05: 08:29

Wow. Storms can definately get scary sometimes:) Great pictures. dontblink · 2009-06-05: 08:29

OH no; that's the kind of thing I dread!!! Amazing how powerful the weather really is urmysunshine · 2009-06-05: 09:57

Awesome captures cd! Glad it was at Jerod's house & not ours. Scarey!! Jannie · 2009-06-05: 20:37

What a wake up call that must have been! Nature can be awesome but also awful at times. ????? · 2009-06-07: 09:16

Remarkable the force of nature - and scary. Great post. :) livelovelaugh · 2009-06-08: 23:01

Some of that weather came our way this morning, but we got off easy. Hope your friend is OK and not too much damage was done. Nubster · 2009-06-09: 19:17

Neat shots. Hope the weather evens out for you though. Jarvo · 2009-06-10: 19:46

outch!! slowpete · 2009-06-11: 01:08