The weather has been hot and very dry 95-105 thats 35-41 celcius. I feel so bad for Scooter working on the roof not only during the week for his paid job but now also for our house in the heat of summer. And we haven't even hit our hottest month yet.
On a bright note it is a great time to spend the days away at the lake. Scott goes over during or after work to jump in and cool off. Here are the girls playing with friends.
We have had some amazing thunder storms the last couple of nights. The night before we got thunder and lighting and sheets of rain. Usually Scott and I open up all the windows and doors, turn out all the lights and sit down to watch the show. But with the sheets of rain it was coming straight into the house seemed almost sideways.
Last night we didn't have so much rain but a big electrical storm. I lay in bed watching out the sliders for about 2 hours and counting and I kid you not there was a lighting strike less than every second for over 2 hours! Don't know that I've seen anything that intense. It was not bolts touching the ground mind you like we had earlier in the evening. This was more the kind that light up the sky and you can't realy see exactly where they come from for all the cloud cover but it seems like God is flicking the sun on and off very fast. That was mixed with the occasional vertical bolts that seem to go from one side of the sky to the other. Than every 15 minutes or so would be a big zapping bolt that touched the earth. Havn't heard how many fires have been started by that yet.
Not having anything even close to our storms in New Zealand Scott is always as excited as a little boy. A couple of weeks ago we had a mico burst (thats what they call a tornado that doesn't touch down all the way) we only got the tail end of it by the time it got to eureka (70 mph winds -Scott and I were canoing on the lake at the time) but it did some big damage 100 miles west. We only had lots of trees down and cars smashed becuase of the trees and things like that. Only one serious injury ( a mom from sheradias school had a tree fall on her and is parralized).
Last night another mico burst hit Libby (60 miles south) and flattened the old drive thru movies (only 2 left in montana now only 1) and pushed a semi truck across a parking lot and other such damage.
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Those storms sound so awesome! I remember when I was 10yrs we were staying with friends in Melbourne and a huge thunder storm hit. The thunder was so loud and close that every time it happened it felt like an earthquake.
Very sad about that lady getting hurt.
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