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In June I was leaving a grocery store here in town when I looked to the south. I saw a sheer wall of dark cloud moving north across the Valley. The forecast had said there would be a chance of thunderstorms, but they say that a lot without thunderstorms ever happening out here. Needless to say, I hurried home and battened down the hatches. Good thing I did too, because when the storm hit, it hit HARD. I've been through my fair share of gnarly winter wind storms, but this storm was a very different beast. The thunder and lightning were awesome. The rain poured, the storm sewers backed up, and the streets flooded. The ground could not absorb the rain fast enough; my basement had some minor water issues as a result. What worried me most is that both my SO and roommate were getting out of class in the middle of the storm. My roommate took shelter in a bar and my SO braved the weather to get home because the storm raged for a good hour; he was completely soaked to the skin.
I wish I could find the video, but one of the strange side effects of the storm was that as it moved in, it stirred up all of the dust and pollen. One of the weathercams of a news station in Portland captured an enormous cloud of dust being blown up from the city just before the storm hit. People had respiratory issues for weeks after the storm; it really sucked.
I love a good storm, but that one was nuts!
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