Is this an El Niño year or something?

[substitute]

THE NATL WEATHER SVC IN SAN DIEGO HAS ISSUED A

* SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR.
NO. CNTL ORANGE COUNTY IN SW CA
THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF.YORBA LINDA.PLACENTIA.LA HABRA.
FULLERTON.BREA.ANAHEIM

* UNTIL 215 PM PDT

* AT 115 PM PDT.NATL WEATHER SVC DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED A
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING DIME SIZE HAIL.AND
DAMAGING WINDS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THIS STORM WAS LOCATED NEAR
YORBA LINDA.& MOVING NW AT 45 MPH.

* THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WILL BE NEAR.
LA HABRA BY 130 PM PDT

IN ADDITION TO LARGE HAIL & DAMAGING WINDS.CONTINUOUS CLOUD TO
GROUND LIGHTNING IS OCCURRING WITH THIS STORM. MOVE INDOORS
IMMEDIATELY! LIGHTNING IS ONE OF NATURES NUMBER ONE KILLERS.
REMEMBER.IF YOU CAN HEAR THUNDER.YOU ARE CLOSE ENOUGH TO BE
STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.

Comments

[bruisedhips.livejournal.com]

This is a dumb question:
Can you be struck by lightening if you're laying in bed with the window open?
Cause that's what I like to do so I can watch the weather from bed. :(

obsessive copy editor struck while waving pen

[substitute.livejournal.com]

That seems unlikely.

It says something about me that I was most bothered by "one of nature's number one killers" than by the lightning danger itself.

[springheel-jack.livejournal.com]

It rose up out of Nixon's grave.

Now more than ever

[substitute.livejournal.com]

Tanned, rested, ready, zombie, lightning-crowded, cloud-borne.. In your heart you know he's right. HAPPY HALLOWEEN! NIXON'S THE ONE!

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[alienhand.livejournal.com]

Gotta keep us alarmed about everything.

Around every turn lurks some evil force of nature or terrorist ready to do me in and take away my freedom.

Good thing the federal gov't is around to rescue me from the rain and myself.

[jonpants.livejournal.com]

My dads office got struck by lightning a few hours ago. Burnt a wall, blew up a transformer and a fence motor and covered a couple cars with black.

[deadflowers.livejournal.com]

tell me about this creepy icon of yours. the black and white bald guy one.

[deadflowers.livejournal.com]

oh wait. i know who that is. nevermind.

[changeng.livejournal.com]

DAMMIT !!! and I just fashioned a new tinfoil hat.

I thought women were one of nature's number one killers.

and how can something be ",...ONE OF nature's number one killers" - Is Rumsfeld reporting the weather now?