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[John MFer]

In South Phoenix, we got very little damage, lots of rain, and the most impressive lightning display I've ever seen.

At my work in Tempe, things were a bit different...

My boss was at work late, here's his car:





the culprit:



Also, here's a hole in the roof of my building. this is from the second floor looking up through the ceiling, through the third floor, the roof, and to the sky:



Luckily the damage to our floor isn't too bad...

[billy]

wow.

yeah the lightning was AMAZING. i have never experienced a storm like that before either.

[Quezo]

Me, weener, ladydemon and the real jeffery lebowski were watching Heaven and Hell last night at cricket pavilion,

and when Ronnie James Dio started singing "Heaven and Hell", the lightning started and was awesome.

It was like out of a movie or comic book where you expect a thunderstorm to start in the middle of a metal show.

Then it rained during Judas Priest and it was epic.

And then I got home and my power was off and is still off, rotting my newly bought foodstuffs.

Sucks about your bosses car though. He might be covered if he spoke with that talking lizard insurance guy.

He's kinda short, you might miss him.

[fatguyaz]

nice job blurring out the license plate. You should be the video editor on COPS.

why was he parked on the sidewalk?

[Jacki O.]

last night's storm WRECKED my neighborhood in downtown phx - snapped electric poles in two, uprooted trees, tore off roofs, knocked down brick walls and fences, snapped a majority of the big old beautiful trees in the neighborhood (including my favorite one!)

when i got home around 10 last night the power was out (and my roof was leaking into my dining room), and when i left this morning at 8:30 it was still out. i am guessing it will be awhile b4 it comes on in my neighborhood since i saw at least 5 poles down this morning on my drive out of the neighborhood.

[mig50]

last night i started to notice that the lightning was picking up, so i decided to sit on my front porch and wait for the storm.

it was pretty calm, then all of the sudden HOLY SHIT.

that wind was fucking amazing. i really thought some of the palm trees on my street were going to break or fall over (i was kind of hoping one would fall on my car).

once the rain was finally soaking the porch, i decided to go inside. a few minutes later there was marble sized hail.

so awesome.

[weener]

When I was driving home from Leslie's, the rain got to be so hard I could barely see through the windshield, and most of the street lamps and traffic lights were out. 7th street was closed off, probably due to downed trees or power poles. My block, by some miracle, still had power and nothing was knocked down, though our recycle bin was blown pretty far from where it should be and the lid is now broken.

[John MFer]

nice job blurring out the license plate. You should be the video editor on COPS.

why was he parked on the sidewalk?

Ha! thanks. the sidewalk area is also a loading zone, 20 minute parking area.

they lifted the palm off just now, 6200 pounds according to the crane guy and his crane gauge.

[mancopter]

I want a crane gauge.

[The Real Jeffrey Lebowski]

Man, nothing cool like that ever happens at my work. What a rip!

[mancopter]

I was honestly hoping that there would be no power when I got to work.

There was power.

[John MFer]

they said that the top of the palm sheered off and fell straight down, pointy end first right on the windshield, then fell over towards the back of the car. My boss said he was getting ready to leave but decided to let the rain pass. If he had left, he might have been in the car when the thing fell, he probably would have been permanently injured or killed.

[fatguyaz]

serves him right for working late.

Work can kill you!! I always knew it!!

[Jacki O.]

just heard that there is still no power in my neighborhood. it's probably hot as shit in my house right now.

[Tony]

just heard that there is still no power in my neighborhood. it's probably hot as shit in my house right now.

that's probably a very accurate statement. assuming shit comes out at body temperature, it would be about 98 degrees. that's the high today in phoenix.

i used a combination of grade-school science and the resources of the internet to figure that out.

HOORAY TECHNOLOGY!