Becky's supposed to be on vacation. I think she was heading south to Alabama or Georgia but not positive. Hopefully they made it out before the storms hit.

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Glad you're OK, EW. I started getting overheated in my stuffy house - I just felt more and more sluggish and stupid as time went on until my husband pointed it out. Please stay hydrated & indoors until the heat passes.

I guess we were in the line of fire for the derecho. Huge trees lashing sideways in the wind & multi-colored lightning. When the sky lit up neon green (lightning? Transformer? Spectran invasion?) I went downstairs & hunkered down with the family.

Somehow, this is all going into a fanfic someday.

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Glad to hear everyone has survived. I heard about it last night during the news and wondered about some Gatchamania people in the storms path.

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I'm glad to hear that everyone is okay. Jublke, that storm sounds downright scary! I'm glad you were able to get to safety.

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My condolences to all who are/were suffering!

Here in Indianapolis, some storms did go through on Friday and early Saturday (and one involved the largest hailstones I've ever seen) but I didn't lose power -and very surprisingly, no tree branches came down either. All in all, I was really just so happy to finally see some rain, after going a month without and having to watch the lawn turn brown and having to water all the shrubs and plants in the yard with a hose every few days to keep them from shriveling up.

Life's been a little hectic though lately, as I've had to get a new computer on very short notice (long story) and be scrambling to finish lots of things before I head for the Comic Con next week (gift exchange fic being one of them).

Well it's certainly putting our miserable summer weather into perspective! Hope everyone stayed safe while it was going on, and things settle down soon.

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Our power went out for about five hours, starting within minutes of the front moving into the neighborhood...

Watching it come in through the back door, I was hoping for a the cool breeze that usually preceeds the front...Instead a great suction came up, almost sucking me out of the house and slamming the laundry room doors behind me...pretty freaky...

One coworker's car got hammered with hail hard enough that it looks kinda like a giant golf ball with a shattered windshield, while another is still without power nor water as there is no electricity to drive the well pump...

We are fine othewise...neighborhood lost some more large trees.

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Glad you are okay K2, although being sucked out of your house sounds very scary. At that point I would be thinking tornado.

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I am aware of that, but can YOU tell a 75mph wind from a 100mph one, when you are in the middle of it? I know I can't, and in the moment how are you to know if the initial gust is a lead up to the tornado winds?

That is what I was thinking of when I said I would have been considering tornado.

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