So its raining right now.....

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SpeedSpeak2me

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I swear this last storm was hunting me. At 5pm I looked at the radar all the way out to IA and it was clear. Figured it was time for a bicycle ride, so drove out to St Charles to ride out to Sycamore. I made frequent stops to clear branches off of the trail so I wouldn’t have to worry about them on the way back if it was dark (it was).

I was just out past Sycamore Speedway and checked radar again. Okay, something developing but it’s way out past Dixon. Plenty of time to ride back.

I’m about 6 miles from STC and through the tree cover it looks like the sky is lighting up. No way it can be that storm. I keep going.

Get about 4.5 miles from STC at Brown Rd and checked radar. OH SHITBALLS!!!

Rode my scrawny ass off trying to cover that 4.5 miles. I get to truck, load the bike and get a few sprinkles. Throw gear in truck, jump in drivers seat. No sooner than I shut the door and started the truck the skies opened up. Had to be about 10 seconds.

Note the time stamp and where the leading cell is:
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8:25 at the 4 mile marker looking back west:
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This was at 8:49, about two minutes after I was in truck, which was about 1 mile west of Randall on Dean.
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Lord Tin Foilhat

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that doesn't really make sense to me

once it's cold in there it'll regulate it's temp pretty well to stay cold

id try to just leave it plugged in if youre running it the whole time if not then yeah i get it
That's for conserving the most gas on your generator while keeping things fresh.
 

Pewter-Camaro

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I still don’t know what happened with this tree two houses down. It looks healthy in the pictures from when the house was listed for sale back in June.

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lightning possibly? There is a tree twice that size that is solid and healthy that was struck in my neighborhood and it’s on the ground split right where the first limbs spread.
 

Pewter-Camaro

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Maybe. My neighbor between my house and that house was in his screened in porch when it happened and he doesn’t think so. Tree pulled the power line out of their house and messed up the meter and their ancient panel in the basement.

damn sucks for them but insurance should cover it and it would be a good Time for them to upgrade the service and bury that shit.
 

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