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Post by cookie3rocks on Aug 6, 2004 22:49:32 GMT -5
Not about rocks, but what happened to my parents yesterday is something wild.
About 1:00 in the afternoon a micro burst came through this county. It got black as night for about 30 minutes and rained to beat the band. It passed quickly (I was at work) and we all went about our business. While I was, uh, indisposed, my mother called and left a message for me to call her back on her cell phone. This was a little strange, I thought something must be wrong. When I called back, my father answered the phone and told me this story.
Apearently, lightening had struck 2 trees in thier front yard and then hit the house. It blew a hole in the wall, busted the glass out of the french doors and most of the windows in the front of the house, ran down the inside walls to the bedroom and set the bedroom drapes on fire. By chance (or fate) my parents were having a late lunch in the sun room, furtherest from the front of the house, and were unhurt. Had they been sitting in their regular chairs in the living room, they both would have been in the direct path of the strike!
My father has so much hardware in his back he would either be dead or picking up radio free europe right now. Thier gaurdian angels must have wispered in their ears it was time to eat lunch, and just in time. They thought, when it happened, they were under nuclear attack!
Thank you, Powers that be, for sparing my parents!~
Pretty wild, huh?
cookie
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Post by cookie3rocks on Aug 6, 2004 22:54:59 GMT -5
OOPS!
didn't mean to put this in photos.
Sorry
cookie
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deepsouth
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Post by deepsouth on Aug 6, 2004 23:20:15 GMT -5
you are forgiven....after such a violant ball-lightning you are bound to be a bit out of kilter.
I have read stories about this type of lightning before , they are quite freeky .
Wish your parents all the best from me
Jack
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Post by cookie3rocks on Aug 6, 2004 23:33:07 GMT -5
Does that sound like ball lightening? I don't know the difference, it was just very intense!
Cookie
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Post by BearCreekLapidary on Aug 7, 2004 1:08:50 GMT -5
Hey Cookie, I am so glad to hear that your parents are well and survived the micro burst or ball lightning. Both of which are awesome weather phenomenons. When I worked at Continental Airlines, they were in the process of installing computers that detected micro bursts. It has been proven that micro bursts have caused or played a major role of many place crashes. It is amazing how Mother Nature shows her fury. God Bless them Guardian Angels  . John |
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Post by shorty on Aug 7, 2004 9:17:02 GMT -5
 hi cookies glad to here your parents are ok. nature is scarey some times
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llanago
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Post by llanago on Aug 7, 2004 10:15:28 GMT -5
WHOA!!!! That sounds scary as hell. So glad that your parents are okay! Sounds like lots of damage to the house, but that can always be fixed.
My father has so much hardware in his back he would either be dead or picking up radio free europe right now.
Too funny! Not the dead part, of course! The radio free europe part.
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Post by krazydiamond on Aug 7, 2004 16:01:14 GMT -5
hope they have good homeowners insurance, cookie, but very glad that your dad isn't picking up short wave tonight! they must have got a few grey hairs tho (and maybe a change of underwear?) thinking what was going on in the front of the house.
we had a severe microburst north of here a few years ago and the forest looked like so many scattered toothpicks...
KD
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Post by cookie3rocks on Aug 7, 2004 22:13:12 GMT -5
My parents are very good about getting the best. I know they have home owners and have the highest level money can buy, theyre sensible that way. My father has had snow white hair since he was forty, but I bet he has some new grey hairs in places he never imagined EEEWWW, bad visual  cookie |
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Post by Cher on Aug 8, 2004 16:45:33 GMT -5
Sure glad your folks are ok, that is a really scary experience.
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Post by rockyraccoon on Aug 8, 2004 18:04:59 GMT -5
that's scarey cookie! glad they were home and in another area. how did they get the drapes put out and how much damage did the fire do? that's the kind of thing i worry about with pets locked inside while i'm gone. i'm glad they are ok!
kim
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Post by cookie3rocks on Aug 8, 2004 20:43:44 GMT -5
Rocky, I'm still trying to reach them by my moms cell phone, but where ever they are theres no service. I know they are staying with family and with my parents, no news is good news, theyld call if something was not good. When they went into the bedroom the drapes were smouldering and had just caught fire and they slapped them out! I always worry about my pets when I'm not home for that very reason. What could the poor things do? OK, that was depressing. I'm gonna play with my rocks now. . cookie |
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Post by RiverOtter on Aug 9, 2004 0:27:48 GMT -5
Glad to hear your parents are ok cookie. Your story reminds me of one of my own. When I was a kid my oldest sister used to babysit a little girl about 18 months old. Well one afternoon she had brought the girl to our house. We lived in a mobile home park at the time. Anyway, a storm was blowing up and my sister remembered that she had left the windows open at the little girls house. She was fixing to leave to go close the windows, when the little girl chose that moment to pee on the kitchen floor. Well of course my sister had to clean it up before she left. A good thing too because if she hadn't she would have been right in the path of the tornado that came through! Isn't it funny how fate works.
Otter
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Post by creativeminded on Aug 11, 2004 9:54:02 GMT -5
Wow! I am so glad they weren't hurt. Those micro burst can be as damaging as a tornado.
Tami
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hi cookies glad to here your parents are ok. nature is scarey some times 
