now that were a storm

[Rob Mak]

friday night i was at my folk's house. -were i house my boat- it starts to thunder so i back out of the car port to the barn that i keep it in. 50 feet from the carport. while taking the reese hitch out of the truck it starts to sprinkle. as i near the rear wheel of my ford ranger a bolt of lighting hits the large white oak tree 45 feet from me. i look up and all i see is chunks of bark 2-5 feet long flying at me. i hit the dirt letting it hit the truck and barn. crazy i am stupid i am NOT. a limb slightly smaller than a basket ball in diamater lands on the carport-flattening it-i finish hitching up as 70-80mph gust of wind blow rain 30 feet back into the barn. it is pouring down very hard with lots of lighting and thunder. when it hits the ground near the house. blowing a hole 3 feet acrossed and 6 feet deep in the lawn. shortly afterward my cell phone rings mom says it has "fryed the cordless phone" i told her as soon as it lets up i would take a look at it. after about 1 hour the rain just stops. i score this storm a 8 -no hail no twister- most definatly one of the nastier thunder storms i have seen short of a hurricane. mom was not joking about her phone.it melted the juntion box in the side of her house in to a gob of grey plastic. melted the cable to the floor jack which it melted down cutting the jack plug off continuing up to the amplfied ringer which it melted to the wall. it hit a staple in the line burning a hole the size of a golf ball through wood paneling. and nailing the cordless phone base. removing it from the wall and chunking it acrossed the room with a hole melted through it.

the only thing that really is depressing was that 5 miles to the north my brother in law was putting a roof on a house in town it never rained there..

zooker