Posted on 04/13/2012 7:10:18 PM PDT by Lorianne
It is a big deal out here. We almost never get a storm like that. This must have been the first thunderstorm in the Bay Area in 10 years.
It's not the difficulty of the picture, it's the rarety of the event.
-PJ
At a California Republican state convention, I met a Chinese-American who lived in The City, as Northern Californians call SF. He said that living there was like living in an insane asylum.
When I'm in town, I usually pick up a loaf of sourdough Boudin bread and eat ravioli at the Cafferata on Columbus and Filbert, but I'm not sure I would want to live there.
WOW..what a beautiful picture.
Thanks for bringing up that point. Growing up in the bay area, lighting/thunder storms were rare...this would have been very rare...time lapse photo or not.
In 1992, I was driving down the Baker Grade, north of Baker, in San Bernardino County, Calif. into a storm. Ahead of me, lightning strikes were happening one after another--it seemed as there was one every few seconds. However, I got through the storm all right and stopped for a baklava and some Middle Eastern coffee at the Mad Greek in Baker. The previous day, I had driven under a funnel cloud at Mountain Pass, about 10 miles north of the Baker Grade.
Savin' it to MY zot-pic file, you betcha!
The surreal colors are striking as well.
We had lightening here on the coast of San Diego this afternoon..very rare.
I thought lightning didn’t strike twice in the same place.
Yes, awesome tourist city. You need to stay 2 weeks to see and do everything. Just the liberal/opportunistic mentality of the residents make living hell for everyone, and if you are conservative it is 3x worse.
Even going back for a visit I get constant reminders. I get off a ramp and there are druggie/alchie bums panhandling. I cross a street and their is a poster for some gay sex website. I drive down a street, and there is a crowd of critical mass bicyclists blocking traffic. Here a gay parade. There an anti-war protest. Nuclear free zone. Save the whales. COEXIST bumper stickers everywhere. On and on without end.
But as a tourist city it is hard to beat, and everyone should make an extended visit at least once or twice in their lives. It is a beautiful city with a lot to do.
Sickening this was covered by foreign press.
DailyMail is better than any MSM outlet, period.
I got hail in my yard today as big as peas. It was like a yard full of white frozen peas, and took a good while to melt where they weren’t sitting in the flood from the downpour. But I’m near Sacramento, not in the SF bay area. I think the SF Giants got rained out.
Yep, some cool storms lately.
? I didn't ever see anything worth the trip. Not even enough to fill a single afternoon. Could never understand the attraction or mystique. Couldn't wait to head out of the city and up or down the coast. Live 750 miles away (not far enough!).
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At Columbus and Broadway, I once encountered a homeless person who implored me to help “an old wino.” I almost gave him some money because of his honesty.
Thanks Jet Jaguar.
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