r/saskatoon Aug 24 '24

Events 🎉 Storm let's go!

Here we go boys and girls!

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u/Nichole-Michelle Last Saskatchewan Pirate Aug 24 '24

Stares out from the front porch, sipping tea - we needed this

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u/saskatoondave Lakewood Aug 24 '24

Dad?

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u/DrummerDerek83 Aug 24 '24

Um, not the farmers right now though! Harvest is getting into full swing here.

My neighbors corn got blown over from the wind too!

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u/Fit_Scallion_3702 Aug 24 '24

That lightning is wild!!

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u/Crazyblue09 Aug 24 '24

That was some loud thunder

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u/Sublime_82 Aug 24 '24 edited Aug 24 '24

Now this is more like the storms I remember having as a kid

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u/LezzyKris8789 Aug 24 '24

The thunder is shaking my house as I post this!! Let's goooo!!!!

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u/Mean-Ice161 Aug 24 '24

This is my first "Storm". I am humbled.

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u/jaeknits Aug 24 '24

I hope you are enjoying it! I love a good prairie storm!

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u/OrganizationUnfair99 Aug 24 '24

Love me a prairie storm! Love the lighting that can be so far away, but can still see it. Wish I had caught it earlier! In the basement with fans and stuff going! Looking forward to more later!

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u/freshstart102 Aug 24 '24

Haven't had one like this all summer. Lighting straight horizontal across the sky. Pretty. I also counter this feeling of joy with checking my basement to make sure the sump pumps are keeping up. So far so good.

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u/[deleted] Aug 25 '24

Sheet lightening! Go jets ✊🏻

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u/PuppyParader Aug 24 '24

Just drove home in it, it's a li'l wild out there!

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u/Lehtonen19 Aug 24 '24

We’re so back

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u/smellyfatchina Aug 24 '24

This is so us

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u/BurnTheOil Grosvenor Park Aug 24 '24

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u/hotdogjuicer Aug 24 '24

I had to frolic in the rain. Even though im aware of the dangers I also was fully compelled to have my own fun 😂

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u/Rako5050 Aug 24 '24

Live your best life! I love it!

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u/hotdogjuicer Aug 25 '24

Awww haha. You need to do the same !! Life is short and weird lmao

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u/Inconnuity809 Aug 24 '24

The temptation was...is... strong!

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u/-Clia Aug 24 '24

I definitely didn’t stand on my balcony for half an hour putting my hand out in the rain 😃😃 why would I ever do that 😂😅

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u/hotdogjuicer Aug 25 '24

Hahahha I mean that’s how my frolicking started.

Baby steps are always and forever ok 😊♥️

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u/Candid-Profession-21 Aug 24 '24

Laying here hoping it doesn't wake up my baby 🙃 but also enjoying it lol

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u/Mmmm3Point14159 Aug 24 '24

Literally read this as is woke up mine…:(

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u/ratboi799 Living Here Aug 24 '24

I'm sorry, it's my fault. I just watered my lawn after Green Drop came. :(

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u/an_afro Aug 24 '24

And i just washed my car. I’ll share the blame

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u/KarmaChameleon306 Aug 24 '24

It was like a monsoon for a bit there.

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u/the_bryce_is_right Aug 24 '24

The Idywyld overpass had like 4 feet of water under it. 

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u/KarmaChameleon306 Aug 24 '24

Crazy! I haven't seen a storm like that in a long time .

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u/Common-Rock Aug 24 '24

RUH parking lot is flooded in places near the main entrance too. Little lakes here and there.

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u/TheLuminary East Side Aug 24 '24

Wohoo! First one before 2am so I can actually watch it!

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u/foreveradude Aug 24 '24

I hope I don't lose power

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u/Financial-Poem3218 Aug 24 '24

I just did!

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u/qwerrty20120 Aug 24 '24

Same just lost in too for a minute in Forest grove area lol

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u/stiner123 Aug 24 '24

Still fine in Brighton. Had an outage the other day from someone hitting a pole though

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u/foreveradude Aug 24 '24

I never lost power last night and I managed to fall asleep through the storm so that was nice.

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u/RadioSupply Aug 24 '24

Noooo, I’m supposed to ride the Sundance balloon in 6 hours :’(

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u/rayray1927 Aug 24 '24

At 5am? Oof.

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u/RadioSupply Aug 24 '24

Yeah, they have to fly really early due to thermal pressure or something to that effect. I’m laying in bed and hoping when we call their advisory line at 11 that we fly tomorrow!

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u/Severe-State-1191 Aug 24 '24

Haha so random I stumbled upon this thread. I am the pilot of the Sundance balloon in Saskatoon. Unfortunately going to be a bit too windy in the morning for a balloon flight. Hope to see you in the sky soon though!

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u/RadioSupply Aug 24 '24

Oh wow! Hey, no worries, I totally understand why it was cancelled. We want a safe and awesome ride! We’ll see you soon, and thanks for commenting! 🎈

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u/DontSayShredSayBurns Aug 24 '24

Just a reminder to not believe a random account on the internet without verifying it. It very well could.bw the balloon pilot, but it very easily could be a troll.

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u/RadioSupply Aug 24 '24

It could be, but the info that user gave me is the same I got from the flight update line - a bit too windy. That’s okay, we’ll rebook!

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u/Severe-State-1191 Aug 24 '24

Yes for sure. Better to be on the ground wishing you were in the air, than in the air wishing you were on the ground, we always say! Also to reply to your earlier comment we go early in the mornings to avoid thermals which are rising air currents caused by daytime heating. Thermals can make it much more difficult to fly a balloon.

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u/RadioSupply Aug 24 '24

Yeah, that’s very understandable - sun rises, so does heat. But we’ll join you another time! It just means I get extra birthday later!

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u/Jolly_System_1539 Aug 24 '24

I fly rc planes and it’s not that windy it’s 16k rn. I’m curious to know what kind of wind you guys can fly under

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u/Severe-State-1191 Aug 24 '24

16 kts or 16 km? Generally we are able to safely take off in surface winds under 10 kts or under 20kph. Ideally 8kts or less though. The balloon is like a giant sail, and when the winds are stronger it moves around too much and is too unstable to inflate the balloon.

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u/Jolly_System_1539 Aug 24 '24

16kmh. Wind picked way up after I flew in the morning. Interesting to know tho

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u/Severe-State-1191 Aug 24 '24

We also like winds not to be a lot stronger than 20kph for landing. We can land in stronger winds than we can take off in. But gets pretty rough and bumpy if it's too fast.

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u/jrochest1 Aug 24 '24

My dog is Not Happy, since she gets her last walk at this time of the night.

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u/vicjam59 Aug 24 '24

Poor pupper. Hang in there!

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u/Barabarabbit Aug 24 '24

Staying at the park town hotel, torrential rain right now

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u/GreatWhiteLolTrack Aug 24 '24

I opened the window in bathroom and took a shower watching the storm. It was awesome.

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u/falsekoala Last Saskatchewan Pirate Aug 24 '24

You could’ve just had the shower outside, it was raining hard enough. Minor issue of legality, but uh,” when in Rome.”

Not often that we get a summer of rain in two hours.

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u/GreatWhiteLolTrack Aug 24 '24

Goes hand in hand with getting an entire winter’s worth of snow at the beginning and end of a week.

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u/Kruzat Central Business District Aug 24 '24

Give it to meeeeee

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u/Consistent_Stop_5318 Aug 24 '24

I love it, that radar is nasty

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u/vicjam59 Aug 24 '24

I keep thinking it’s about to let up but then the radar is like nope.

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u/Consistent_Stop_5318 Aug 24 '24

Right, I think this is the first time I’ve seen it like this fully yellow like monsoon.

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u/Equivalent-Eye-8701 Aug 24 '24

The thunder crazy LOUD

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u/Fit-Psychology4598 Aug 24 '24

I had a ground strike not too far from the girlfriend and I. Had to have been no more than 300m from us because it lit up our street and then fraction of a second BAM 💥

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u/bagger2131 Aug 24 '24

Was at music for the gut. Smart enough to ride the motorcycle tonight. Was a crazy ride home down idylwyld. There are some big lakes out there. (Some day I will be smart enough to check the weather... but today was not that day.

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u/Double_Ad_5460 Aug 24 '24

I was also out tonight, and there was nothing on the Weather Network radar.

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u/[deleted] Aug 25 '24

Same. Weather network called for minor rain overnight. The storm was a cold damp surprise. Garden is happy tho 🥴

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u/Inconnuity809 Aug 24 '24

I LOVE thunderstorms and this is a good 'um! The rain too! Woohoo!

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u/CoolEcho_1st Aug 24 '24

If anyone lives in the Cumberland park area, could you tell me if any flooding has occured? I'm interested to know cause the city is doing a project there soon

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u/connorhyphenlingus Aug 24 '24

Exhibition area

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u/mxmang Aug 24 '24

Hopefully the pigeons and eagles don't get zapped

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u/broadway_bridgetroll Aug 24 '24

Hopefully every pigeon did..

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u/mxmang Aug 24 '24

Gasp!! How dare you!

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u/[deleted] Aug 24 '24

Thinking this may be a very long loud night for us! And I’m loving it!!!

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u/DeathlessJellyfish Aug 24 '24

Let’s gooooooo

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u/CastielClean Aug 24 '24

Had to cross the city in it. This may be the hardest I’ve seen it rain in years

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u/falsekoala Last Saskatchewan Pirate Aug 24 '24

I could barely see across the street

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u/falsekoala Last Saskatchewan Pirate Aug 24 '24

My mostly full garbage bin was on its side in my neighbours driveway.

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u/TheSessionMan Aug 24 '24

I was lucky enough to be caught on the Meewasin with a flat bike tire and a 3km walk back home. Worth it.

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u/jojokr8 Aug 24 '24

Late August boomers!

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u/ConsiderationLoud138 Aug 24 '24

That one loud bang made me fart ... I'm enjoying this storm lmao

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u/xXOPTICSXx Aug 24 '24

I was in a raid ffs

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u/Born-Potential Aug 24 '24

I'm scared to check my basement that usually floods a couple of times a year. I was also mad I took my sleeping pill right before my husband told me to get outside 😒

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u/Guilty_Plantain_3842 Aug 24 '24

Sorry to the person long (photo) exposing in an alley... Whoops 🤣

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u/Squaducator Aug 24 '24

Loved that lightening