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Posted by: Alchemies Original: 7/22/2008 8:54 PM Views: 1 Comments: 1 eProps: 2 Read Comments Post a Comment Back to Your Xanga Site

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Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Summer Storm
22 July - taking cover, hiding out

Kitchener - Cambridge - Region of Waterloo
8:23 PM EDT Tuesday 22 July 2008
Severe thunderstorm warning for
Kitchener - Cambridge - Region of Waterloo continued

At 8:10 PM weather radar shows severe thunderstorms moving eastwards across the above regions at 40 km/h. Damaging winds large hail and torrential downpours are associated with some of these storms. The possibility of a tornado also exists with these storms.

This is a warning that severe thunderstorms are imminent or occurring in these regions. Remember some severe thunderstorms produce tornadoes..Listen for updated warnings. Emergency management Ontario recommends taking cover immediately when threatening weather approaches.

Niiiiiiiice. Lauren and I were out shopping when it hit - a normally 10 minute drive took us 45

minutes or so to drive through town to get home. In hail and torrential downpours. Left me wondering if we were navigating through tornadoes or downbursts. Tornadoes I know about. Downbursts is something new to me... they happen "when a column of sinking air hits the ground and spreads out violently in all directions."

Given what Laur and I just drove through -- completely flooded out streets with stalled vehicles and 4x4 trucks up to the runners in water in the middle of intersections and literal torrents of water angrily raging down the streets (I saw one manhole cover blown clean off, and another with a gyser spouting!) -- I would say we just experienced a downburst. Crazy shit.

When the hail started falling, I was beginning to get concerned. As you can see from the picture, we had funnel clouds in the immediate neighbourhood yesterday afternoon. I'm thinking we're going to hear about a few more after what I just experienced tonight.

All I wanted was to go pick up some magazines about decks and patios and stuff. Got drenched and tripped out instead. And the weather is to remain volatile for a day or two more. Another thunderstorm has just started rolling through - and it's a mean mutha, too. Makes me glad for an old house with a basement, let me tell you!

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Yikes, those are some crazy pictures! You get some really wild storms there. The twisters can be found here, too, but basically seem to skirt our city altogether, found north and south instead.

Basements are a good thing indeed. I can't imagine living in Texas's tornado alley, where basements are never standard.

Posted 7/22/2008 10:12 PM by karos