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So I mentioned that I was traumatized last year by a thunderstorm that just sat over my home for about 4 hours in the middle of the night. Well, it happened again. To be fair the forecasts were really wrong so there was no way I could LOA it..
For some unknown reason the storm moved east to west... err that isn't how things are supposed to do go? The maps had it going west to east. It eventually did that but not on the timeline they said.
I think the problem is that when it comes in from the ocean (west to east) it sort of a circle pattern it hits the jet stream and gets stuck until the jet stream can move it.
It started -- strong around 4:00 pm yesterday and did not let up at all until about 6:20 pm. Every time I would think, oh well how much more can there possibly be, something else would happen. We got hail... I have to tell you.. I lived in Michgan for a few years and even when a twister was around hail was not frequent. But this was 2 rounds of hail. I am amazed there was no apparent damage. I was lucky not to get flooding but in the middle of the storm we got an emergency alert saying not to travel as there was wide spread flooding. Some hospitals had to be evacuated due to the flooding. Of course a strong storm has been stuck over us for 2 hours. At the end we had some lighting and thunder that shook the house enough to literally be like an earthquake.
And just at the end... when it seemed we were all clear, I lost power. Again, have to say, even in Michigan, I didn't lose power. I suspect something happened far from us that took our power out because nothing was happening here at the time. I got it back about 6 hours later. I was grateful we lost it when the storm was over. This thing was so strong though all during the night you could see lightning flashes .. though thankfully no thunder.
My cat is terrified of storms but I think he just reached a point were he just had to close himself off for sanity reasons and he went under my bed and didn't come out. That was a god send. When the hail started I was on the look out for a twister and had my belongings ready to run to the basement.
I feel like I made a big mistake moving to this town. I feel like my town is under where the jet stream hits other air and it seems like where I am always gets the jackpot for snow as well. Where I used to live was just more protected by being slightly north of this "battle zone". I really am considering moving now. Yes it would be an difficult adjustment for my cat but this storm and snow situation isn't exactly great either.
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