The Dude

3.57" and still raining here.

1.92" yesterday

Just under an inch here in N. Bethesda. Legit SN+ for ~5 minutes when the oranges passed overhead.

Got down to 25 here. First night in the 20s!

Crazy rain rates last night. Peaked at over 7 inches/hr.

After a couple weeks with Smith as his QB, he'll be demanding another trade...

Great find. at the cars being tossed around at :40.

Hit 31 here with widespread frost. Die mosquitoes! Die!

Got down to 34 here, with some scattered frost on roofs. Need a couple more degrees to kill off the mosquitoes!

Wow. The car is adrift.

I was woken up by some house-rattling thunder last night around 1. Seemed to go on for at least 30-40 minutes. 1.68" here yesterday and overnight.

It definitely looks like it's trying to spin something up.

Nice spot. I wonder if the temperature differential between the air and bay temp is enough to trigger a bay-effect streamer. That's kind of what it looks like.

Not much in the way of wind, but tons of lightning and rain. At least a dozen bolts hit within a half-mile of Farragut Square. Great light show.

Absolutely pouring downtown.

Nothing too special here in N. Bethesda. Some nice heavy rain, some thunder and lightning, and some gusty winds (nothing over 40 mph). A nice way to start the season!

That picture of the toppled chair cracks me up every time.

Just a beautiful storm!

This is the last bit of damage I could find: http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Joplin,+MO&hl=en&ll=37.030441,-94.330346&spn=0.003606,0.006968&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=57.772232,114.169922&vpsrc=6&t=h&z=18 What are you seeing down by Granby?

It woke my wife up, and she woke me up. I felt the bed vibrating a bit. It felt pretty similar to the Germantown earthquake last year; nothing like Tuesday's.

Yeah, but it was in Missouri then...

Agreed. There is zero need to take any precautions like checking structural integrity. This is America's capital, damnit. I'm sure the buildings and subway system were built strong enough. And I am appalled that the news is covering this event. Sure, we don't get quakes this size around here but one a millennium or so, but other places get them pretty regularly. They are such pansies for focusing on it. And anyone taking pictures of their trash cans to show the impact of a weather event is definitely a pansy. Glad there's no one like that around here.

Looks like it's back to being a 5.8, and the depth is now listed at 6 km.

WHERE IS FEMA??!?!?!?

Sounds right to me. Nothing broken here, but there's no way anyone inside could have missed it. Felt more like a train passing nearby than a truck.