Wow, you would typically wake up on mornings like this and think “ah, yes what a beautiful day. We must have had a little sprinkle last night.”
The problem with this thought is that you are dead wrong. Last night we had one of the largest thunderstorms that I can remember in my recent Charlottesville history.
My roomate and I were both awakened at around 4:30AM with torrential downpours, strobe-like lightning and my own thunder.
Normally, I would take credit for these types of storms, but I typically don’t wake myself up. Were you awakened?
Did the giant thunderstorm storm wake you up?
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I’ll take credit for it, since Thor won’t. And this storm was nothing compared to a couple last summer that set off car alarms in my neighborhood.
I knew it was you!
I was awake almost 1/2 the night. I even tried to hide under the covers.
Yeah, puppy started freaking out. That’s what woke me up, but that was even before all lightning. Great storm whoever was in charge. And good timing. 4am is the best time to water my plants, I’ve heard.
I think you could usher a few thousand elephants through my bedroom on a Tuesday night/Wednesday morning and given the typically high levels of South Street’s finest in my body I would not wake up. And I love a good thunder and lightning exhibition. Very sad to have missed it, thank you stormy and Thor. I am sure the squirrels are a little frazzled but the plants are loving it.
/think I dreamt about Jello. very strong correlation there, no?
It woke me up around 4:30 which was terrible because that was around the same time that I transitioned from drunk to hungover.
it woke up me and Mrs Nut, but the Peanut and PupNut slept right through it (which is odd, because the PupNut is terrified of loud noises).
not like being awakened at any hour between midnight and 6:00 AM is unusual for us anymore though…
My dogs were freaking out!
Hehehe - nope, slept right through it
That storm was rock and roll all the way. I wonder if there is any way to build your own lightening rod and use it to charge an ipod. I bet lightening powered music sounds a lot funkier.
It was great jumping out of bed still red-wine drunk to run around in the dark making sure all 11 windows and 4 doors were closed.
Lightning not lightening
making sure all 11 windows and 4 doors were closed.
What were you doing sleeping in a sedan? Also: I’ve never heard of a car with eleven windows. Neat!
tornado!?!?!?!?! I thought we were better than Kansas!
I didn’t do it I swear…….stormy!
Stanley, you’ve obviously never been privy to the beauty of the 23-window VW bus, which would be a great place to ride out a thunderstorm like the one last night, especially if the full-length canvas sunroof was replaced with a plexiglass dome, making it a 24-window bus.
@13, 16: Shaddup. I live in a 4 story house with LOTS of windows/doors/entrances.
Shit. That was a gud comment for stalkers.
don’t worry Shen, you’ve got enough stalkers already that any new ones would be hard pressed to get close enough to do any harm!
Plus parlie’s in Asheville till tomorrow.
and is temporarily immobilzed.
@21 Perhaps Shen ’s house has a wheelchair ramp and is ADA compliant
so…many…jokes…must…control…fingers.
@23 as long as they aren’t soviet russia jokes what could go wrong.
@14, 15 - I do rain and snow, not tornados
/once you’ve been struck by lightning, you never go back.
That storm tried to rain Norwegian water on me.
/not going back, evah!
@24 unfortunately, i don’t know Shen or Parlie well enough (at all, really) to make the jokes that came to mind.
This is the internets. You can make any joke you want.
yeah, but the last thing i need is for Shen or Parlie to come hunt me down. it’s cool.
Joke away.
meh…it’s too built up now. suffice to say it was about Shen’s compliance being well-known. or at least well-speculated!
DING-DONG!
nice to see you’re up and about Parlie, how’s yer back?
my WHAT?!
it’s hurt. i have a doctor’s appointment sometime in the future. in the meantime i have the best medicine, which is vicodin mixed with laughter:
http://www.i-am-bored.com/bored_link.cfm?link_id=30580
Shen, see 21
Parlie, take 2 vicodin and call Shen’s married co-worker
After cVillain, this is the best page in the universe.
you might be right, echo, between cVillain and that page, i’m not getting anything done this week!
@37 Hah ! Love it.
Feel better, parlie! Or, at the very least, feel less.
/ouchy
@36: So you’re not saying I’m a slut or anything?
@37: OH hell yeah. No more working.
@41, like i said Shen, i don’t know you OR Parlie well enough for that…
You’re all welcome. You’re bosses will thank me when productivity for June is hovering somewhere around 0.
@37 Net Nanny has cyber-spanked me, deeming that site “tasteless” and off limits to the likes of me. Stoopid nanny.
@44: That’s too bad. It’s a little vulgar, but mostly arrogant and hilarious.
I woke up briefly in the early morning, but when I woke up for work a few hours later, I wasn’t completely sure if we had a thunderstorm or if it was part of a dream I had.
Nature’s firework display (all without the proper permits) were the perfect reason to get up early and put on Jem’s Finally Woken softly in the background while my dog and I sat and watched the storm.
After it was over I crawled back into bed and decided to take the day off. I may never go back to work.
the best article on the site Echo gave us is, hands down, “The iPhone is a Piece of Shit and So Is Your Face”
Jesus. I just watched some gnarly green clouds spiral up over belmont. Aint never been in a tornado, but now I can see how they might form. Trippy shit. Its about as unnatural to me as a Cali boy as the ground shaking it up is to you east coasters.
/still refuses to watch unnecessarily wet reporters give me tips on the television machine.
haha yeah, I was just over at the mall on 29 and everything turned green outside (it was really weird), then the power went out, then the doors flew open and all the mannequins in front of the belk entrance blew over as wind was gushing in and one of the chicks was holding on to the security sensor to keep from blowing over too…for a second I really was thinking..holy fuck, tornado..aaand I’m stuck in the mall.
but then the storm moved on and everything was fine..looks like quite a few power outages though.
/off to watch nbc cover weather for the next 8 hours..
holy fuck, tornado..aaand I’m stuck in the mall.
But damn, would your corpse smell nice.
The weather was awful! The wind was blowing so hard I thought the rain was going to bust through the windows! I tried to take a ramp to 29 and a tree had fallen across it! I had to turn around. I so almost died. Then I returned to the Valley and ALL was CALM. The storm had passed and the drive home was smooth. I hate damn storms when I am not in the safety of a home.
Careful Tuesday. We wouldn’t want you to blow away.
I had damn storms
Me too, but the doctor gave me an ointment.
Show me, on the doctor, where the ointment touched you.
wait, what?
the storm didn’t wake me up, but since i dearly miss awesome thunderstorms(growing up on the great lakes makes for some superduper natural pyrotechnincs- i sat up and soaked up the whole she-bang.
yummy.
if i wake up in asheville one more time, i’m going to turn into a fucking blown glass piece made of drum circles.
really? where would the herb go?
@57
can’t hack it, eh?
/get it?
(hacky sack reference)…
take care of yourself, parlie!
i totally didn’t wake up, but that could be because i’m eight hours to the east and it’s light here all. the. time. seriously, the sun sets at 3am and rises at 5am. but, you know. it’s also constantly 55 degrees. so awesome.
from russia with love!
in
sovietrussia, buster loves you!@47: Good song!