[PoopyTheJ]

So I live in this pretty quiet little town in NE Ohio. Last night we had some of the worst storms I have ever seen. Driving home from work through 2-3" Hail I thought it was gonna come through my roof or windshield or both. The roads were a mess, everything was flooding a town just to the north of us was under a state of emergency, which does seem to be declared a little too often I think, for their flooding. It was a mess, we've had torrential downpours for the past week. Huge lighting strikes, 70Mph winds you name it. So just to let you guys see I'm uploading pics of the stream next to my house today, after the storm still a bit higher than usual and then during the storm. Scared the crap outta me.

[PoopyTheJ]

Nice little tiny creek right, basically a drainage ditch under the road. Now here it was about half an hour after the storm had passed. I had to change levels and brightness in photoshop since it was very dark, so that's the color change and whatnot. Eww I hate storms. I just finished reading "The Coming Global Superstorm" by Art Bell and Whitley Strieber, I've gotta say I'm seeing exactly what they were talking about. Weather is getting more and more violent all the time all over the world. This winter we had more snow than we've seen in 50 yrs at least in NE Ohio. The storms were more violent and more snow was dropped. The whole area around here is flooding, standing water when it's not raining and at least 80 degrees F. Mosquitos are going out of control, I wasn't so much a believer in Global warming till I started looking around and I gotta tell you it's pretty damn frightening.

[Necrosis]

I hear ya..my power went out when the storm went through..just got it back on about a hour ago.

[The_Neon_Cowboy]

storms can get that way talking to somone who allmost go trapped out there with a buch of hunters with a big storm passed through and flooded people in... even after the some they couln't get out unless they swam just the way the land is out there ....

[PoopyTheJ]

Hey if anyone is west of Ohio at this point, whats goin on with the weather cause it's probably moving this way!

[MythicaL]

We RARELY get a flood in Sacramento valley... We had one that was kinda bad about 7 years ago...

[Roadee]

Everything was pretty bad last night here in Central Wisconsin.....power was out for a long time.......and lightning most of the afternoon, evening, and night. Everything looks pretty good this afternoon though.......just alot of flooding.......SEVERE flooding.

[PoopyTheJ]

Yeah, I'm heariing a LOT of that Roadee. I'm afraid we're gonna be in that boat after last night as there's water all over, lots of places in my area have been flooded out and we've got more storms on the way.

[PoopyTheJ]

JJohnson, maybe not much flooding but way too many earthquakes, I just read this too on UnknownCountry.com

California Quake Predicted for September
In May, there will be a TV miniseries about a devastating quake in California that scientists say is too extreme to be real. But a U.S. geophysicist says a major earthquake will hit southern California by September 5th.
Vladimir Keilis-Borok has developed a way of predicting earthquakes by tracking miniquakes, that often cannot even be felt. Using this method, he predicts that California will experience a 6.4 quake in September. He accurately predicted a 6.5 quake in Central California last December and an 8.1 quake in Japan last September. He says, "Earthquake prediction is called the Holy Grail of earthquake science, and has been considered impossible by many scientists. It is not impossible. We have made a major breakthrough, discovering the possibility of making predictions months ahead of time, instead of years, as in previously known methods."

Seismologist Nancy Sauer says, "Even two years back it was practically a dirty word to say earthquake prediction."

He predicts the quake will hit an area that stretches across desert regions to the east of Los Angeles, home to around nine million people, including the Mojave desert and the resort town of Palm Springs, which lies near the San Andreas fault. An earthquake on the southern San Andreas of a magnitude of 7.5 or larger could kill thousands of people in the greater Los Angeles area and cause damage estimated in the tens of billions of dollars.

Seismologist Ray Weldon's data backs up Keilis-Borok's research, but he says, "…I don't lend any insight or support to a window of time."

Here's another disaster waiting to happen: Lab 257. This book blows the lid off the stunning true nature and checkered history of Plum Island. It shows that the seemingly bucolic island on the edge of the largest population center in the United States is a ticking biological time bomb that none of us can safely ignore.

[Mazuko]

I'm up here in grand rapids, michigan. We got hit with the storms a few days ago and they were torrentous, but fortunately we were not hit with flooding as storms like that are common over here (horray for lake effect).

Kind of surprised it made it down to you guys but man it was some nasty weather I could not see my truck from the front door of my house 100 feet away it was raining that hard an dlightning was everywhere. It was such beautiful destructive power it was awe inspiring.

Right now we have some sporadic showers nothing major today although yesterday we had 2 rainstorms one about midday and one around midnight but they only lasted for about 20 minutes each but the lightning showers were NASTY.

Aside from that looking out the window right now the sun is up and the ground is dry albeit it is a bit windy.

[PoopyTheJ]

Today is nice but kinda cold, I'm not real sure what the weather is going to be doing but it's probably not going to be good. I've just read the Pentagon report on sudden Climate change and it does not look nice. You can find it here - http://www.ems.org/climate/pentagon_climatechange.pdf. Unfortunately It looks like we can expect more of the same and worse in the coming yr or so. And if I'm reading this correctly this is Tornado warning 259 for this yr alone. http://www.wunderground.com/US/OH/001.html