💬 OT So its raining right now.....

[SpeedSpeak2me]

First was no flash looking out patio door, 1/50 sec.
Second was internal flash, 1/250 sec.

If I had the motivation I'd set up the tripod and remote flash with long exposure and rear curtain flash to really do a nice job. If....lol. Maybe tomorrow night if the storms keep coming.

Edit: have to zoom in to get the good details. Can’t upload the full high resolution images, too large.

 

[Bub]

First night in the new house... Good night for leak testing. Appears all clear.

 

[Spivitz]

Yup, just now thunder Boomer

 

[Gav'sPurpleZ]

yep
rain

 

[Spivitz]

Glad it's taking a break, let the ground soak it up a bit.

Round two later today

 

[Lord Tin Foilhat]

Yeah. We got hit pretty light so far

 

[01Cobra]

Glad it's taking a break, let the ground soak it up a bit.

Round two later today

ground is saturated

 

[Gone_2022]

Member when it was supposed to be horrible today? Off the charts in the tornado scale and we were in the extreme storm zone?

I member. I member the 20 mins of rain I got and that was it. I member

 

[Lord Tin Foilhat]

One of those times you are glad they are wrong though

 

[Shawn1112]

My back up sump pump got a hell of a workout last night.

 

[Gone_2022]

I mean I was excited for a least a normal storm. I woke up today and the weather channel was freaking out about now we are off the charts for tornados, and all the weather apps sending alerts..... nothing. Not one bit. Not 1 storm barley any rain.

 

[cdh027]

Its coming

 

[Kensington]

We got pounded last night, all the areas around us are pretty flooded...as I was writing this, a very close lightning strike happened lol

ground is already pretty saturated here, likely to get some more flooding

 

[SHARKBITEATTACK]

my father told me it might hail, anyone else hear this?

 

[Chester Copperpot]

I could use a new roof.

 

[Spivitz]

Last massive hail, $5000 to fix the Heep
Thanks State Farm

 

[CMNTMXR57]

Yea, we got a lot here. Sump pump is going crazy, figured it was time to get a new battery for the backup pump (it died late last season). So I did that tonight.

 

[b00sted]

I mean I was excited for a least a normal storm. I woke up today and the weather channel was freaking out about now we are off the charts for tornados, and all the weather apps sending alerts..... nothing. Not one bit. Not 1 storm barley any rain.

There were a whole bunch of tornado storms out west near the iowa border. It seems like everything missed the Chicagoland area, though. What a let down.

 

[IceCreamAssassin]

It just dumped here in Cary hard as fuck. One of those rains you couldn’t tell if it was rain or hail

 

[Kensington]

We had something brief, a little rain no light show

 

[Shawn1112]

Anyone's back up sump still kicking on? Mine is kicking on once a hour this morning. Didnt think it rained that hard last night, wondering if its playing catch up from the night before. Either that or my main sump took a shit which I doubt, its not that old.

 

[Spivitz]

Anyone's back up sump still kicking on? Mine is kicking on once a hour this morning. Didnt think it rained that hard last night, wondering if its playing catch up from the night before. Either that or my main sump took a shit which I doubt, its not that old.

Oh yea, it kicks about every 40 min

 

[Shawn1112]

Oh yea, it kicks about every 40 min

Considering we live pretty close than I'll take it as its playing catch up.
I'll go check/test it tomorrow when sewer should be close to empty

 

[The Beast]

Anyone's back up sump still kicking on? Mine is kicking on once a hour this morning. Didnt think it rained that hard last night, wondering if its playing catch up from the night before. Either that or my main sump took a shit which I doubt, its not that old.

I’m confused don’t back ups kick on if the main pump takes a crap ? Or do they kick on when the main pump can’t keep on ?

 

[GLADIATOR]

I was watching radar last night because just south of us it looked pitch black. We only got the northern tip of the storm line. It poured like crazy. We lost power several times which is rare for us but you could smell electricity in the air. I was having sump pump issues forever and finally created an irrigation system out of 4 inch tubing that moves the water away from the house...glad I did this last fall