oregonstate: Did anyone else hear / see that shit? I

SUparJErk (

suparjerk) wrote in

oregonstate,
@ 2006-01-28 03:42:00

Did anyone else hear / see that shit? I usually love storms but that seriously scared the hell out of me for a sec.

(Post a new comment)

	marvolo 2006-01-28 11:46 am UTC (link)
	What the hell WAS that? I thought it was some kind of explosion or something...? But it was really windy aftewards? I was seriously looking out my window for the mushroom cloud. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	suparjerk 2006-01-28 11:52 am UTC (link)
	That was the most intense lightning / thunder I've ever experienced on the west coast. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	frogist 2006-01-28 11:46 am UTC (link)
	holy shit I seriously was midly concerned that was a nuclear explosion I saw this flash out my window than just FREAKED OUT (Reply to this) (Thread)

	suparjerk 2006-01-28 11:50 am UTC (link)
	Yeah, I thought a bomb went off until I heard thunder. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	jilliebean01 2006-01-28 07:26 pm UTC (link)
	Yeah it woke us up out of a really deep sleep, also thought it was a bomb. And when I opened my eyes (I had the window open) I saw crows going EVERYWHERE in an explosion-like pattern. Crazy! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	starladear6 2006-01-28 11:57 am UTC (link)
	Fuck yeah! it freaked the fuck out of my house too! it sounded like it was coming from INSIDE our house! (Reply to this)

	shazamaramack 2006-01-28 12:48 pm UTC (link)
	Me and my roommate were at shari's... we saw the flash and thought somebody took a picture and were looking around. I said, 'maybe it was lightning,' and then BAM the thunder rolled in and scared the hell out of us. (Reply to this)

	rivulet 2006-01-28 04:00 pm UTC (link)
	We were asleep so we didn't see the lightning, but the thunder sure woke us up! That was amazing! (Reply to this)

starladear6
2006-01-28 04:07 pm UTC (link)

I'm totally not convinced it was lightning. the weather was really strange right afterwards. My room mate claimed that she saw some kind of strange fog when she looked out the window that went away a little later. Then there was how the rain just absolutely DUMPED right afterwards and how the wind totally went crazy for about 10 minutes afterward...

I was thinking... it might have been a tiny meteor exploding in the air over corvallis... all that atmospheric stuff could be explained like that I think. I know it sounds totally far-fetched, but that shit wasn't lightning.

(Reply to this) (Thread)

	chris61182 2006-01-28 06:24 pm UTC (link)
	It's nice to see that I'm not the only one who thought that might be the case. I grew up in the midwest were we regularly have thunderstorms, and what I heard last night sure didn't sound like regular thunder. Then not to mention the lack of any other lightning besides that one bolt. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	starladear6 2006-01-28 07:21 pm UTC (link)
	glad to know I wasn't the only one either. i asked my roomie what she thought. She thinks it might be possible. She knows more about this sort of thing than i do just because her field of study and her personal interests. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	frogist 2006-01-28 07:33 pm UTC (link)
	yeah that actually does round pretty reasonable plus the lack of any other strikes (Reply to this) (Parent)

	cudava 2006-01-28 10:08 pm UTC (link)
	Yeah, I don't think it was lightning. My place was nearly shaking from that "thunder." I thought a tree or something might've fallen down (my brain processes don't do well when I'm abruptly woke up). (Reply to this) (Parent)

	stacyrocks 2006-01-28 07:03 pm UTC (link)
	Yes, it was way intense. (Reply to this)

	mbaok 2006-01-28 07:43 pm UTC (link)
	the coast had lots of thunder and lightning...so we might have just been on the edge of the storm.... (Reply to this)

beautifulwolf
2006-01-28 09:05 pm UTC (link)

Hmmm what the hell time was this??? I'm just over in Albany, was up 'til after 2am and NEVER heard a THING. Hell neither did the dogs and they slept strait through the night!!!!

Wow. The things you miss living in "boring town" ;0P

There was bad rain before bed, but no thunder, or lightning that I saw or heard and I'm a light sleeper, as are my "super duper attack (and kiss) dogs".

(Reply to this)

	maiki_desu 2006-01-28 09:44 pm UTC (link)
	has anyone seen any news/weather/odot/whatever reports on what happened? Or was it classified by the Department of Defense within 5 minutes? (Reply to this)

	blackthorpe 2006-01-28 10:21 pm UTC (link)
	Well, I just talked to my wife, who works at Valley, and she told me that the Oregonian is reporting it as thunder. It was like no thunder that I've ever heard, though, and the wind and rain afterward was bizarre. Of course, this is Oregon, so wind and rain is pretty eratic anyway. Maybe it's the end of the world??? (Reply to this)

	jilliebean01 2006-01-28 11:42 pm UTC (link)
	Sounds like a fabulous conspiracy :) (Reply to this)

idriliel
2006-01-29 01:07 am UTC (link)

It was lightning...I was actually awake at that hour (I work graveyard) and looking out the window. The reason WHY it seemed so loud is because it was CLOSE--it struck at about 8th and Washington, and it seems likely from how it looked that it touched ground.

It did shake the house I was in as bad as an earthquake, but I've had that happen from thunderstorms before.

I think some of you just haven't seen what thunder and lightning can really do, or aren't used to Oregon (which is full of wonderfully weird weather). Hail is actually a very common phenomenon after/during a thunderstorm. And trust me--it was just one part of a very stormy night.

(Reply to this) (Thread)

suparjerk
2006-01-29 09:19 am UTC (link)

Heh, yeah, I was awake too. Went to bed at 8AM. I know how the rest of the night went.

What I remember growing up was everyone telling me how to estimate roughly how far away a lightning strike is, is that sound travels at approximately a mile per second, so count the seconds between the flash and the thunder, and that's how many miles away it is.

I could swear a good 5 or 6 seconds passed between the flash and the thunder. Maybe it was because the flash scared the shit out of me so much that I went into panic mode and time seemed to just slow down altogether, but I definitely remember having plenty of time to freak out and look around my room trying to figure out what the hell just exploded before I heard the thunder which calmed me down. 8th and Washington is definitely not 5+ miles away from where I live. Maybe the 1mi/s thing is complete BS.

I have been to Washington DC and witnessed some of the thunderstorms there. I am still jealous of the displays they get. Never in Oregon have I seen lightning fork across a third of the visible sky like I did there (no, I'm not exaggerating one bit). Pretty damned incredible, and the accompanying thunder was almost as impressive. But never, anywhere, have I seen or heard anything comparable to what happened last night.

(Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	idriliel 2006-01-29 12:23 pm UTC (link)
	It's actually 5 seconds=a mile. So divide your count by 5 and you'll have an approximation of how close the lightning was. :) And what happened last night isn't out of my realm of experience: I was camping in the middle of the largest electrical storm on record in Washington State. Last night doesn't even begin to compare to how fucking scary/extraordinary that was. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	ksjdskldgjslkj kyatoru 2006-01-29 03:27 am UTC (link)
	Err, sorry guys. It was actually just me. I ate at La Conga earlier that night... (Reply to this) (Thread)

	Re: ksjdskldgjslkj suparjerk 2006-01-29 09:20 am UTC (link)
	Oh, I see. What was that bright flash, then? Did you light it on fire?... (Reply to this) (Parent)

	unusualdrug 2006-01-30 05:51 am UTC (link)
	The thunder woke me up and I heard a girl scream when it happened. I guess it definitely scared some people. I didn't see any lightening (although I was laying in bed - I figured I would have seen changes in light) ... what, were we right under the storm or something? (Reply to this)

Username:		Create an Account Forgot your login? Login w/ OpenID
Password:
	Remember Me
	English • Español • Deutsch • Русский…

About

Help

Get Involved

Legal

Store

LJ Labs