-=> KK4QBN wrote to Tony Langdon <=-
KK> @TZ: 40f0
KK> Re: Re: Why I Run A BBS
KK> By: Tony Langdon to KK4QBN on Mon Sep 18 2017 20:28:00
KK>> power of it, watching the cloud formations, etc.. I always get an
KK>> energized feeling out in storms.. probably all the positivly charged
KK>> ions floating around.. makes the hairs on my arms stand up as if I
KK>> was holding a static charged balloon over my arm.
TL> Hmm, trying to get zapped? ;)
KK> Well.. not really.. when the lightening gets close enough I do go
KK> inside.. after a while you lean how it all works and where it is and
KK> will be..
Indeed. :)
KK> the only thing that scares me with storms is wind.. especially straight
KK> line.. theres not predecting those.
More predictable here, at least in the short term, if one knows the type of
systems that generates those kinds of winds - cold fronts, microbursts, etc.
Cold fronts and microbursts are definitely the big wind makers around here. :)
Tornados are rare, but not unknown, had an F2 within a mile of here in 2003.
... The wheel's spinning, but the hamster's dead.
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