[MRCG] Just lost power

[Richard Knoppow]

       Very heavy thunder here in the morning with lighting directly 
overhead.  This is the fringe of hurricane Delores which is sitting in 
the Pacific west of Baja last I looked.  Very large body of hot, wet, 
air hanging over the area.   At the moment its sunny in Los Angeles but 
measured temp where I am is about 85F and about 63% RH.   Very 
uncomfortable for a desert rat like me. We are supposed to have more 
rain today and tonight but the weather service says that because this is 
not the result of a front its very hard to predict and rain can be 
random and sporadic.  There is a flash flood warning in effect for the 
whole area.   Just took a quick listen on 20 meters and do not hear 
static crashes.  Power failures during storms are very common here.   I 
have indications that there was some sort of transient last night or 
very early this moning.  The clock in my microwave re-set but my old 
computer did not turn off. Must have been very fast.  When I went to the 
grocery yesterday long the power company trucks were out working and the 
traffic signals at many intersections were on flasher so there was some 
sort of problem.

On 7/19/2015 10:55 AM, Ed Zeranski wrote:
> MRCG,
>    Very interesting Saturday weather in San Diego!  There were distant 
> rumbles late Friday night but the big guns arrived just before 0600(L) 
> .  We live about 2 1/2-3 blocks from the Pacific Ocean at about 200ft 
> with a view of the water. As the cells moved NW  I could see the 
> lightning strikes happening near the waters edge with two big ones 
> very close by. My Frankenstein switch disconnected the twin lead from 
> the baluns/equipment all day. Lightning/thunder/downpour lasted on and 
> off until late afternoon locally but continued at higher elevations to 
> the east. The power across the street went out from an early xfmr 
> strike but we are on a different feed so never lost power. I could 
> look out to see the weather cells approaching while watching the radar 
> on my laptop. All our rain catchment containers are full, it rained 
> like we were in Southern Baja. ALL in all very entertaining in a 
> normally dry place but the radios stayed off......except for the 
> little Sony and Grundig.  Did anyone have a vlf/elf monitor running??
>
>
> EdZ KG6UTS
>
> On 07/18/2015 08:14 PM, Mark J. Blair wrote:
>> I lost power just now, so somebody else please fill in as NCO 
>> tonight. :(
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Richard Knoppow
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