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KABOOM - If you live in California's Inland Empire. What the heck was that?
Me. | 2/19/2004 | Me

Posted on 02/19/2005 8:58:43 AM PST by 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...


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To: This Just In
Boxer and Feinstein simultaneously came up with an original thought?

Wouldn't that be an implosion?

41 posted on 02/19/2005 9:42:38 AM PST by b4its2late (Every time I think about exercise, I lie down till the thought goes away.)
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To: Smogger

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.


42 posted on 02/19/2005 9:43:29 AM PST by BJungNan (Please stand by while I think up a new one...)
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To: jocon307

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!).


43 posted on 02/19/2005 9:45:38 AM PST by mwyounce
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To: Smogger
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.

44 posted on 02/19/2005 9:47:36 AM PST by Dane ( anyone who believes hillary would do something to stop illegal immigration is believing gibberish)
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To: doug from upland

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


45 posted on 02/19/2005 9:48:42 AM PST by mwyounce
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To: mwyounce

That was from January.


46 posted on 02/19/2005 9:50:58 AM PST by doug from upland (Ray Charles --- a great musician and safer driver than Ted Kennedy)
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To: Smogger
Map where ligthning is currently striking in the US.

Red means a big lightning strike.

Link

47 posted on 02/19/2005 9:52:32 AM PST by Dane ( anyone who believes hillary would do something to stop illegal immigration is believing gibberish)
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To: Dane
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"

48 posted on 02/19/2005 10:02:59 AM PST by RckyRaCoCo ("When you have to shoot, shoot, don't talk!")
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To: BJungNan
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.

49 posted on 02/19/2005 10:21:33 AM PST by DallasMike
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To: Smogger

Sorry --

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

I'll point it towards the ocean next time.

Freedumb2003 From San Fernando Valley


50 posted on 02/19/2005 10:23:58 AM PST by freedumb2003 (We will win with the Sword Of Teamwork and the Hammer Of Not-bickering!)
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To: Smogger

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


51 posted on 02/19/2005 10:25:34 AM PST by Walkingfeather (q)
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To: DallasMike

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.


52 posted on 02/19/2005 10:38:43 AM PST by mwyounce
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To: RckyRaCoCo
"everytime a lightning bolt strikes some DU'er gets his ZOT"


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

53 posted on 02/19/2005 10:40:05 AM PST by Earthdweller (US descendant of French Protestants)
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To: Smogger
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It was whale farts. What have you been feeding the whales dude?

54 posted on 02/19/2005 10:42:08 AM PST by WideGlide (That light at the end of the tunnel might be a muzzle flash.)
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To: Hank Rearden
"Inland Empire"
Yeah, I lived there (Upland) in the 60's and was wondering which psycho-meds the author of that name was taking.
55 posted on 02/19/2005 10:52:58 AM PST by Minutemen ("It's a Peaceful Religion")
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To: Smogger

Probably some sort of Tesla scalar weapon trials.


56 posted on 02/19/2005 10:54:43 AM PST by Chewbacca (GATA be in it to win it.)
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To: DallasMike
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.

57 posted on 02/19/2005 11:08:28 AM PST by BJungNan (Please stand by while I think up a new one...)
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To: Dave_in_Upland
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.

58 posted on 02/19/2005 11:10:29 AM PST by Euro-American Scum (A poverty-stricken middle class must be a disarmed middle class)
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To: b4its2late

LOL!

Black hole?


59 posted on 02/19/2005 11:11:59 AM PST by This Just In (In the land of the blind, the one eyed man is king.)
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To: This Just In

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


60 posted on 02/19/2005 11:46:23 AM PST by Coldwater Creek ('We voted like we prayed")
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