Storm! Have to Close the Computer. / myLot

United States

May 31, 2016 5:42pm CST

A storm is suddenly coming up. It is scary. The sky turned a strange shade of dark, things are blowing around from the high wind and lightning it lighting up the sky. Need to close down before we get zapped. Tornado warnings??? Do you have scary storms where you live? What are they like and what do you do to get through them?

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Jandie

@tech40 (23230)

• Philippines

1 Jun 16

Take care! I'm not turning my computer off when there's tornado but,, anyway hoping everything will be fine again like a sunny day.

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Jo Ann

@akalinus (44366)

• United States

1 Jun 16

I turn it off for lightning. I don't want the computer to be fried.

Gina

@Gina145 (3949)

• Johannesburg, South Africa

1 Jun 16

We don't have tornadoes, but we get some really scary thunderstorms too, and on occasion the hail can be pretty bad as well. I hope today's storm wasn't too bad.

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Gina

@Gina145 (3949)

• Johannesburg, South Africa

1 Jun 16

@akalinus Good to hear that everything's okay now. I tend to worry when our storms get bad too, especially since we had a hailstorm that broke 13 of our windows a few years back.

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Jo Ann

@akalinus (44366)

• United States

1 Jun 16

@Gina145 Wow, 13 windows! That was an expensive thing to replace. Sometimes, hail breaks car windows, too.

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Jo Ann

@akalinus (44366)

• United States

1 Jun 16

I have seen much worse. It was quite intense for a little while and then calmed down, thank goodness. I was a little worried, though.

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Toni

@toniganzon (77064)

• Philippines

1 Jun 16

You got storms, we got typhoons. Flood and tsunami are our biggest enemies.

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Toni

@toniganzon (77064)

• Philippines

1 Jun 16

@akalinus we had typhoon Haiyan, the strongest typhoon in the world. It was awful.

Jo Ann

@akalinus (44366)

• United States

1 Jun 16

Those do not sound like very much fun. We get hurricanes. We had some bad ones a few years ago and I still shudder with the memory.

Jo Ann

@akalinus (44366)

• United States

1 Jun 16

@toniganzon I heard that there was a lot of loss of life. I have heard other people talk about it.

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Gus Kilthau

@Ceerios (4698)

• Goodfellow, Texas

12 Jun 16

@akalinus - Ms Jo Ann - Plenty of weather around here. Pull the electric chords out of the wall - that's what we have to do lots of the time.

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Gus Kilthau

@Ceerios (4698)

• Goodfellow, Texas

13 Jun 16

@akalinus - Ms Jo Ann - Likely, it is less expensive to replace electric cords worn out from being constantly pulled than it is to replace things such as electric appliances. Today we went through the exercise two times. Lots of thunder and lightning.

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Jo Ann

@akalinus (44366)

• United States

13 Jun 16

@Ceerios We live near the lightning capital of the US. Lots of lightning here in the summer.

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Jo Ann

@akalinus (44366)

• United States

12 Jun 16

Good idea but they are happening so often.