May 29, 2007
Lightning Crashed Near Washington Monument
Youtube user Brohim posted a video of Sunday night's impressive storm with a view of lightning striking what looks to be pretty close to the Washington monument. Since most of us were away yesterday, care to share any stories of how the storm affected your holiday plans?
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It rained out the Shakespeare Free For All :(
I was in the parking lot of the Safeway on Georgia Avenue and almost got killed by lightning! (I think. I'm sure it struck in the lot somewhere, but I'm not sure how far from me.)
The power went out around Ballston for at least 5 hours! Leaving all of us at my friend's BBQ sitting in the dark. Luckily they have a firepit in the back, so we made good use of that, even coming up with a new s'mores recipe: substitute reeses cups for chocolate bars.
My girlfriend and I were camping out in the Monongehela National Forest in eastern West Virginia...the last forecast we'd seen before we left town only mentioned a brief chance of storms on Saturday, and nothing for Sunday...imagine our surprise when the storm clouds came rolling in over our camp on Sunday afternoon and we were relegated to our tent for two hours of steady rain. Also imagine our surprise when we discovered said tent was not so water tight. When the next wave of rain started after about an hour's break, we called it quits, packed everything up, hiked the two hours back to the car and drove home a day early.
I was driving back from the Eastern Shore. It was quite a light show coming over the Bay Bridge.
I was meeting friends at the Capitol to see the NSO concert, and I was going early to get seats. I get on the metro in Friendship Heights with the sky looking gray but perfectly fine. I get off the metro, and I have 2 voicemails saying it was raining small children in VA and headed to DC, and no one was going to come out for the concert.
Luckily there's a movie theatre at Union Station so the evening wasn't completely wasted.
I think I remember that lightning bolt, though I didn't see it -- a loud explosion followed a really bright flash during that storm. I thought, damn, that was too close.
this is the wrong town in which to use 'effected' when what is meant is 'affected.' get a grip, and perhaps some remedial writing classes, dcist!
I was delayed flying out of LaGuardia into National Sunday night by an hour and a half. No delay mentioned when I left for the airport, and not till I was waiting in the terminal did they tell us. We tried flying AROUND the storm so it took longer than the 45 minute flight time and was pretty bumpy (but not enough to justify the crazy woman screaming about the turbulence 2 rows behind me). The kicker is that the flight that was supposed to take off an hour after us landed 15 minutes after we did.
I was sitting outside at a local taqueria eating awesome food, when suddenly, the tornado-type wind blew off the table's umbrella, I had to grab my food and hold down the table so it wouldn't blow away as well... got some construction dust all over my food and in my water... then ran inside when I had a second. Once inside, it started pouring just as suddenly. About 30 minutes later, it was just a light-normal rain, and we had to walk home in that and skip out on the planned grocery shopping.