As I posted recently, we have just returned from spending some time with our son and daughter in law in DC. It appears we left just in time.
It was beginning to get hot by the time we left and yesterday they had record breaking temperatures there. This led to some huge thunderstorms in Virginia, Maryland and DC last night. This is the view from our son’s front window that he saw this morning. They are still lacking power.
Boadicea's Chariot 
Hello FEEG,
Frightening stuff. We think our weather is bad. Good job the tree (Don’t know the names of any trees. A tree is a tree) fell thataway.
From the look of it it is either one of the Eastern Maple family or far worse a tulip tree, tulipifera liriodendrum.
What a dreadful shame, a magnificent specimen.
Take heart, only a power cut he could have been living in Colorado and had the place burnt to the ground.
Dreadful how many houses have now been burnt in Colorado Springs.
You have to be very careful indeed where you live in the USA and choose your house with extreme care, far more so than in the UK. Every area appears to have it’s drawbacks.
A good old fashioned root cellar is extremely useful, except in floods!
Used to have thunderstorms like that in Atlanta, seriously scary, we never have anything like them in the UK.
None of your poxy zig zag stuff, ‘finger of God’ vertical stabs that you can hear sizzling!! All too reminiscent of the afterlife in the here and now.
Morning FEEG
That’s frightening stuff.
CBS called the storm a derecho, a sort of cross between a hurricane and a tornado, it’s a new one on me so I thought that I’d look it up, here’s what Wiki has…
A derecho (Spanish: derecho “straight”, pronounced [de̞ˈɾe̞tʃo̞]), is a widespread and long-lived, violent convectively induced straight-line windstorm that is associated with a fast-moving band of severe thunderstorms in the form of a squall line usually taking the form of a bow echo. Derechos blow in the direction of movement of their associated storms, similar to a gust front, except that the wind is sustained and generally increases in strength behind the “gust” front. A warm weather phenomenon, derechos occur mostly in summer, especially June and July in the Northern Hemisphere. They can occur at any time of the year and occur as frequently at night as in the daylight hours.
Seriously scary.
At least my son and daughter-in-law are some of the lucky ones. Their power has already been restored and their air conditioning is working again. The local power company is talking about taking up to a week to restore all power.
Hello FEEG:
Sorry about your kin. We had the same storm here, major thunderstorm action on Friday night, no power since then. Local utility are saying Wednesday earliest. This comment courtesy of the backup generator and a cellphone wi-fi hookup.
I have four large trees down around the house and I opened up my driveway only late last night (chainsaw party). No real damage except to my sailboat mast which now has the appearance of a broken pretzel and my courage which was tested late Friday. Not surprised there is a new word (derecho)
Amazing storm, lightning from 10 through 1 am so it was continuously light, we probably had four inches of rain in two hours and sixty+ mph winds (guesses both).
I did take some pictures when Saturday dawned, may try a post later.
LW: It sounded very nasty, the way my son described it. Sorry about your mast, but I guess if that is the worst that happened things were not too bad for you. Hope you get power back soon.
I think we have been very lucky over in the NW. Everyone moaning about the dreadful gloom, rain, mist cold etc of June, more like November!
But we are very thankful to have nothing like that storm.
I wonder if we will get any kind of normal summer this year, begins to look problematic. More a case of a pox and murrain across the land!
The bright side being we could all live in Colorado Springs!
I hope you can use the logs LW, we found so many of the southern trees were quite useless to burn or plain dangerous. Ever tried to cut up Hackberry? Don’t!