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Originally Posted by Synchro
Last night I got home as quickly as possible after work hoping to squeeze in a 9 mile bike ride before supper. I could see storms off to the east so I decided to keep it closer to home. I was about a mile from the house when I could sense that the storm was about to hit so I turned around and boogied for home. That ride back was hairy as heck with cloud-to-cloud lightning right above me. I made it into the house just as the rain started in earnest and within a couple of minutes it was falling at a 45 degreee angle. It rained heavily for nearly half an hour and the street in front of my house was flowing like a muddy river. A few minutes after that it stopped and within minutes the roads were (mostly) dry and the only reminders of the storm was sand on the roads. Riding that mile back to the house was a bit scary, fortunately I had a tail-wind.
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Wow, this is weird! I was riding my bike home from work last night here in Minneapolis when it got really dark, really quick. Big fat raindrops start falling and in the distance I see a few lightning bolts. I dropped the hammer and made record time! The funny thing was, by the time I got home, not five miles away, there wasn't a drop of rain on the ground. I asked my wife what she thought of the storm and she said "What storm?"
In any case, if there's somewhere I don't want to be in a thunderstorm, it's holding an electric guitar or straddling a steel bike frame!
