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  1. 09-10 analogy
    Yeah, I saw a good bit of that video damage as I was walking around. Lotta movers and shakers live in these neighborhoods so it's gonna get covered a lot.
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    Well I did about an 8-mile hike from my house down to where the damage was. I saw about 10 or 11 huge trees down -- curiously, none of them onto houses, but a couple of cars were crushed. (Note to self: do not be in a car with trees around and 70-80 mph winds.) It was worse in Woodley Park than Cleveland Park; I was going to go over to Glover Park and maybe toward Palisades, but even though it's a nice day, it's still a hot July sun and I'd had about enough, so came home. The damage was, where I walked about, hit and miss; I saw one house which looked like it had lost shingles off the roof. Lots of people gawking and doing what I was doing. Talked to a police officer in front of the Zoo (which was, unsurprisingly, closed); fortunately, no animals were hurt, but there were tons of trees down, he said. He also said there were a lot of trees down on the Mall; I didn't think the swath of damage was that far south.
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    Think the visibility at the beach is better for lightning displays, but wind, because there’s so much “stuff” (e.g., branches) around, may be better in more urban areas? I guess I’m weird but seeing that cardboard box blown end over end down Conn Ave was cool as hell.
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    Quite the one-two punch. Yesterday BaLtimore and north, today Dc
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    My wife and daughter down the shore now near there and just texted me a vid with a nasty looking storm looming
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    Didn’t see anything quite that dramatic around friendship heights/tenleytown; seems worst of the downburst (?) was just to the south.
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    Yeah it was a rain near-whiteout at times. Very cool. I reserve the right to change that judgement if the power stays out for a few days, though.
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    A mess up here. Power out all over. Numerous large branches down but driving back from the gym, where I rode the storm out, I didn’t see any trees down. Best storm in a while and best this year going away. Very strong winds but like I said earlier it wasn’t like some storms when you have the burst at the beginning and then it calms down. The winds were gusting over 50 for a good 20 minutes or so. Maybe 60, even 65; I was looking at it on Connecticut Ave and saw cardboard boxes, at times elevated, being blown Down the street. I read sterling tweeted potential for 80; I don’t think it was that strong in my immediate area. Eta: video in the other thread from Woolley park similar to what I saw in Van Ness which makes sense because the neighborhoods are right next to each other
  9. 09-10 analogy
    Pummeling. LONG duration 40-50+ winds. Been waiting all Summer for this one
  10. 09-10 analogy
    Now this is a storm
  11. 09-10 analogy
    We're getting a downpour but, geez, that downburst north of Baltimore meant business, evidently.
  12. 09-10 analogy
    Not a drop and not much of a puff. At least, not so far. Maybe the fill-in will grace us with its presence. LWX's map looks like a popsicle collection:
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    Seems to be a semblance of a shelf cloud with this cell; haven't seen too many of those recently. Don't have a real good vantage, though, and am too lazy to go up to Fort Reno. Warned in S MOCO; ought to be getting a warning for NW DC at least soon.
  14. 09-10 analogy
    Well, immediate DC area, according to SPC meso, we've got 3500-4000 SBCAPE to work with, if I'm reading the squiggly lines right. We had any kind of shear at all, things would be rocking around here.
  15. 09-10 analogy
    Hyped days underperform; meh days overperform. Going with that mantra for this afternoon. Nonscientific but, hey, I'm not a scientist.
  16. 09-10 analogy
    Yep, wide south. Happens not infrequently in Tenley. Still remember the tornadic storm that went through N Arlington/Foggy Bottom a couple of years ago ... t'wernt much here. At least I (used to) get more snow than they do, but as Joni Mitchell once wrote, it don't snow here, it stays pretty green.
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    Well whatever we're getting is soon to arrive. The wall of doom grey is a bit ragged along the horizon, it's not a solid block of menacing TSTM+++++ coming in. From NEXRAD, the Rt 7 express stuff I had hopes for seems to be weakening just like everything else. Oh, well, I can always move to Moore or Tanner.
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    Storms seem to be percolating in NVA (e.g. Leesburg) even as they're choking off in C MD.
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    It'll be interesting to see if the powerful storms moving thru MOCO/NVA can lay down any boundaries that may goose (or perpetuate) the storms lining up on I-66 in the Front Royals area, so that (yes, MBY) NW DC can get in on some good stuff a bit later.
  20. 09-10 analogy
    Oh, yeah, vehicles. They've got sirens too. I'm so dense sometimes.
  21. 09-10 analogy
    You have severe weather sirens out there? I usually associate that with places like Oklahoma or Kansas. Of course I've never lived in a semi-rural area ... correct me if I'm wrong if you don't ... so maybe that's de rigueur in most places. I remember driving through S/C Oklahoma once, through the town of Frederick. On the SW side of town, every other telephone pole, it seemed, had a speaker. I assume it was for the sirens and that they were located there to warn of storms/tornadoes approaching from the SW. But that's just supposition on my part; maybe there were there just to play selections from a Rogers and Hammerstein musical on Cadillac Day, for all I know. Anyway, the sight of those sirens made me think of tiny vulnerable towns in the Great Plains, which could be suddenly eradicated from existence by a Greensburg/Udall type event, and these little sirens were a brave way of trying to mitigate existential (and usually nighttime) destruction.
  22. 09-10 analogy
    Clear as a bell directly overhead but I see some cumulus congestus (or something akin) off to the N/W. Must be a hell of a cap in place. And, yeah, muggy and uncomfortable. Seems like today could go either way: little to nothing in the immediate area, or a solid severe wx event? Just read the afternoon AFD. Outflow boundaries, baby! Spawn those storms like mosquito larvae in a swamp.
  23. 09-10 analogy
    Ryan O'Hearn channeling his inner Steve Pearce this weekend ... and for that matter, all year. Pearce seemed to always get the big hits in 2014. This team is definitely the best O's team since 2014. Picking up Miller at the deadline gave the O's that year three horses in the pen, along with O'Day and Zach; that bullpen was nearly untouchable down the stretch, IIRC. I'd like to see this year's O's get another powerhouse reliever to go with Bautista and, especially, Cano, who I worry will get overworked. (And, no, unfortunately I don't think Fujinami is the second coming of A. Miller.)
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    The hell with Game of Thrones ... Felix is the real "Mountain."
  25. 09-10 analogy
    I'm all in favor of bolstering the rotation but not at the expense of too much young talent. And the ones I'd be in favor of trading (e.g., Cowser and Stowers) have struggled so far and probably wouldn't get much back that's any better than what we have. (I was surprised to see that Wells is leading the league in WHIP, which is important given how many HRs he gives up.) I can't see Elias parting with Holliday, for instance. Ohtani would be a lot of fun, but he's a rental who's not going to sign in Baltimore for the long term. That said, this is a very balanced lineup. According to Baseball Reference, six of the O's nine starters have OPSs over .800. That's counting Hicks, but Mullins cannot get back too soon since I don't trust a 33-year-old with a lifetime 97 OPS+
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