• Thursday-What'sUP August 16 - 10:40 pm

Last night I was down at Gratiot Lake hooking up some of our friends to the Pasty.NET broadband network. The access point is across the lake at Noblet Field Station, powered by solar and wind. Nice to have an Internet connection way out in the middle of nowhere.

Courtesy of Gratiot Lake Conservancy

WOW - what a great picture of the storm - hope it didn't start a new fire!

That first picture is just really beautiful!

I love storms, glad it happened after we left the campground!

There's nothing like watching a thunderstorm over the lake (for me, Lake Huron). Often you get to see one pass by farther out. Last weekend I was up at our place near Cheboygan, down on the beach watching the meteor shower. The stars were out over me, but every so often there would be a huge flash of white light from the direction of Bois Blanc Island and the U.P. There was no sound, so it must have been in the U.P.

That's a great picture, with cloud-to-cloud and cloud-to-ground lightning in the same picture! It's too bad that the storm did not dump much rain. I do hope the storm did not ignite any more fires UP there.

It is a shame that the UP and a lot of areas around the midwest are so dry (info courtesy of Fran in Georgia's link, I think it was), yet the folks in Texas are about to float away! They have been drenched all summer. They can't tolerate any more rain without the threat of severe flooding, yet they are getting dumped on by Tropical Storm Erin. I'm sure they wish anybody else got the rain that they can't tolerate!

Deep Purple

I have a copy of Dan's photo I made when it first came online. Is it possible it's been what, three or four, years this month that the UP lost one of it's most creative and talented men?!

At Lac La Belle we had our first deluge of rain this season, beginning at 10:40 last evening. It teemed for 20 minutes, and then wained off for 10 more, until finally stopping at 11:10.

Too little, too late for a lot of stressed out trees and bushes.

The storms that came through our area last night in Northern Indiana and Southern Michigan were quite a show. The weather service estimated between 4,500 and 6,ooo cloud to ground lightning strikes per hour.

I love that lightening picture.

Dan U. passed away Aug. 13th, 2004.

What a difference a few miles makes! Here in Copper Harbor, we had maybe 20 minutes of rain, total, and only one rumble of thunder...no great light show. Any rain is welcome, but it sure would have been nice to have more...

AWESOME................sure don't see that in the city...!!!!! There is no question....it is beautiful in the U.P.

To bad it didn't pour....we could use it!!!
God Bless ya'll

I thought that might be one of Dan's pictures. His photos were beautiful! Miss Him!!!

It was 104 here in Rossville today, not counting the humidty factored in there. For at least the past 2-3 summers my flower bed along the back of the house had very pretty,lush Impatiens,Hosta and ferns. This yr even with me watering them the impatiens still are the size as when I planted them. Of course the weeds are doing just fine"(

It's amazing how the weeds flourish no matter what the conditions. I have observed how the flowers and vegetables just hang on with watering, but one good rain then flowers start blooming and the tomatoes start ripening.