KABOOM - If you live in California's Inland Empire. What the heck was that?

Me. | 2/19/2004 | Me

[Smogger]

Okay.. People in the Ontario/Upland area What the heck was that? An earthquake? Lightning? If it was lightning it was the loudest I have ever heard. It shook the whole house, and set off every car alarm on the street.

Hmmm...

[b4its2late]

Boxer and Feinstein simultaneously came up with an original thought?

Wouldn't that be an implosion?

[BJungNan]

Lighting will do that. If it strikes very near you it is very loud. It can crack a window. We don't get that much of it in California. Spend a spring in Western Pennsylvania or Eastern Ohio and you will think someone dropped a small bomb from the sky. And some times they strike so close you literally smell the electricity.

[mwyounce]

Next you're gonna tell me that there's no such thing as Dr. Seuss, Disneyland and Mother Goose (Then again... after this rain, Disneyland might wash away!).

[Dane]

Probably thunder and lightning.

No big deal, happens every summer out east, especially Florida. Just make sure you have surge protectors. Them lightning bolts can fritz out your electronics.

[mwyounce]

Ha ha... Is that an old one or did you just come up with that in the past 20 minutes?

[doug from upland]

That was from January.

[Dane]

Map where ligthning is currently striking in the US.

Red means a big lightning strike.

Link

[RckyRaCoCo]

Reminds me of what the little girl from "It's A Wonderful Life" said..

"everytime a lightning bolt strikes some DU'er gets his ZOT"

[DallasMike]

We don't get that much of it in California.

Some friends live in the Los Angeles area for a couple of years back in the 1990s. They once came home from shopping during a thunderstorm and saw all their neighbors standing outside in the not-so-pouring rain looking up into the sky and oohing and aahing every time they saw lightning and it thundered. I gather that they don't get T-storms very often.

[freedumb2003]

Sorry --

A little gas after my famous "10-alarm chili."

I'll point it towards the ocean next time.

Freedumb2003 From San Fernando Valley

[Walkingfeather]

http://radar.accuweather.com/adcbin/public/local_radar.asp?partner=accuweather&type=still&nxtype=R1&nxsite=KRIV
lightning is my bet

[mwyounce]

I know what you mean... When I was in high school, I went to Nationals in debate, and it was up in North Carolina. The debaters in the hotel room next to mine were from Las Vegas, NV. The first night up there, we had a major electrical storm, and they were all outside watching it. They said they had never seen such a storm.

Being from Georgia myself, it wasn't that big a deal.

[Earthdweller]

"everytime a lightning bolt strikes some DU'er gets his ZOT"

This gets my vote for funniest wise crack of the week.

[WideGlide]

It was whale farts. What have you been feeding the whales dude?

[Minutemen]

"Inland Empire"
Yeah, I lived there (Upland) in the 60's and was wondering which psycho-meds the author of that name was taking.

[Chewbacca]

Probably some sort of Tesla scalar weapon trials.

[BJungNan]

I gather that they don't get T-storms very often.

Yea it never rains in Southern, California...except this year it seems. I have never seen an entire desert green like it is now.

[Euro-American Scum]

At Campus and Arrow it was lightning and thunder.

It knocked out the power at Jim's Burgers on Foothill between Mountain and San Antonio.

Thunderstorm. Nothing more. Happens in the midwest and the east coast all the time.

[This Just In]

LOL!

Black hole?

[Coldwater Creek]

I am sure that it was my Mother rolling over in her grave in Rose Hills.