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Oh how I miss the North Carolina thunderstorms. The last time I experienced one of those was in June of 1959. There's nothing like the crack of lightning and ground shaking thunder, not to mention large marble sized hail pounding the crap out of everything. The down pour was almost like swimming as I remember it. People here in California have never seen a storm like that. As to current weather here, hot and only going to get hotter for the next 10 plus days.Both the cats just streaked under the bed, followed by thunder in the distance so while it is very hot, 97F it is also about to storm, wind is tossing the trees around now!
Until I was 19 I was in Connecticut and Upstate New York both of which are home to the infamous weather pattern called the Nor'Easter which was made famous in the movie "The Perfect Storm" Most folks of my age still talk about the blizzard of 1978, when Ella Grasso the governor of Connecticut took the unprecedented step of closing the entire state. Buffalo NY had the national guard deployed to help dig out of snow that commonly drifted to 8 - 10 feet in places on top of 5 - 6 feet of fallen snow. Lake effect snow all through that area was scary!Reading about your cloudy and wet weather. All we could afford growing up was a fat woman standing over us sweating and spitting on us.