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Thursday, August 07, 2008
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Big Kahuna 26
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Ontario, Canada.
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Lanterra Update > Today was another lightning filled day. Storms with hail raged all day long to the east and west of us here in Thornton just south of Barrie. We escaped them all day long thanks to a strong lake breeze off Georgian Bay that cooled the air enough to prevent storm formation. I have never seen a lake storm inhibit effect like this before. It really was uncanny today. The area of clear air was directly proportional to the size of the Bay and extended all the way down to the Holland Marsh and was as wide as the Bay.
Once the breeze calmed down around 5 o'clock I could see the clouds forming to the north of Barrie. They had already started to form tops reaching high up into the jet stream. I decided to take a nap after dinner confident that we were going to get hammered again. I slept about 45 minutes when the first clap of thunder woke me up at 6:45pm.
Well we got another 1/2" dumping. Just what I don't need. More rain. These popcorn storms are neat to watch and fun to track on radar but they are absolutely reeking havoc on my plants roots. We must be dam near 20" of rain in the past 5 weeks here in Thornton.
The mosquitoes are just starting to get to be horrendous too. I was even swatting them in my office this week at work. On Tuesday I went out to work on Jet Scream in the morning inspecting some of the restraints at about 8am with the sun high up and 2 hours old the bastards were circling me like buzzards at the last supper.
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