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Appears we got ~6" of rain last night. A very close shot of lightening toasted our cistern pump controller (no water), TV satellite and internet connectivity. Once the thunderstorm passed and left just rain my wife was out in it taking a shower. Not a surprise... We have water thanks to our great local well folks, the rest will come.

"Right as rain".

Ed was it Texas or up North?

We always run around shutting crap down, like heat pumps, tvs and major electronics when lightning in the area.

Even tho I have a whole-house surge protector. Just a habit


I can be in another state check on the house, pull live lighting data from an internet site I use. Call the house and tell the kids...Lort jeebus yall unplug my 55” hitachi and shut down both heat pumps 😃

I gots a 32" panasonic.

Fry that biatch

We got 2 1/2inches yesterday over 19 inches above normal for the yr.

Got 2.8 here.

We are above avg for the year here, but it's been weird...

Lots of rain at one time. It runs off, and then a long dry spell where the pastures brown and quit growing. Then it'll come another turd floater, and the water runs off. Doesn't have time to sink in and do the good it should.

Wettest dry year I can remember.

Glad y'all have water to use, Ed.

You don't have a water well there? You mentioned a cistern and pump... Do you collect rainwater?

A few more pounds of powder and another 1,000 primers for the AR’s. I also bought another suppressor, the Hybrid 46. I bought a couple more boxes of 35 Whelen ($31ea) and a couple more 50rd boxes of custom loaded .222Rem mag ballistic tips. A trigger tech trigger for a 700 and a couple other must haves.

must mean its going to be dry there for awhile

I had no idea they made a 55 incher. I hope my wife doesn't find out. She barely has a use for me as it is.

Boerne.

We are on a well that pumps into a cistern then to the house. We do collect rain water but that is set up to take care of the landscape.

We had about 13 sprinkles last night and got a light dew this morning.

Has those 6" rains before, no fun.

apparently it was too durn cold for the penguins in antarctica this year..(record cold)
least ut was warm enough for a outside shower where you were..

As I once told a young feller who was going to buy a suppressor for his computer, lightning jumps across miles of sky; it can jump over your surge suppressor.

Opening the mains and all the breakers to stuff outside might help, but since many strikes are top-down, like the one that hit my father’s house, nothing is sure-fire. The one that got him came through an ungrounded VHF antenna (what was he thinking!?!), blew out drywall here and there following the house wiring, trashed his PC, the VHF set, and his furnace controller, plus various other oddments here and there.

My strike hit the housing for my well, a pretty dang good ground, and still blew up the pump controller 150’ away in my basement, $140 as compared to the $8k my father’s hit caused.

Your setup sounds entertaining at least. Hope Alexa doesn’t hack it.

Never fear, you’re still needed here. Whenever firearms disaster strikes, we can always say, “At least we’re still luckier than Paul”.

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Just over 3" here plus we had 2.75" two nights before. My phone keeps going off in the middle of the night with flash flood warnings but it doesn't understand that I live on a hill.

lol speaks more about you, stop riding that bike and ride your old lady.