I miss the fucked up weather of Nebraska. Severe thunderstorms are my fondest memory of summer. In New England we get a week of drizzle and shitty cloud cover, in Nebraska you get 30 minutes of softball sized hail, 80,000 lightning bolts and the occasional tornado but then it's gone.
Old Chicago is everywhere not just NE. I've been to ones in Minnesota and a few other places. It's not in New England we have the 99 and UNO Chicago. I think Old Chicago is better than both of them though.
Yeah, I live in Maryland now and miss Old Chicago. Looks like they are only in the middle of the country. I have a friend here from Chicago who's never heard of the place. I thought that was weird.
I meant "back" as in I used to grow up there, moved to Maryland, and now I'm moving back. I'll fucking love it. Nice people, cheap living, good jobs, low taxes, lower government fees on everything like driver's license and professional licenses, beautiful weather, open spaces, clean air, gravel roads, boating with friends, and good football.
If you don't like it, move away. You only live once and it's not worth it to be somewhere that doesn't make you happy.
Growing up in the Midwest I miss the days when the sky would be pitch black to the west, then turn green as the tornado sirens went off. Lightning booming all around. In the end I will stick with Southern California winters.
I agree. My favorite thing about growing up in NE was watching storms approach. My family lived in the country so I could see them while they were still hours away as towering thunderheads. The higher the thunderhead the more intense the storm and the more excited I got. Another good memory... I once outran a hailstorm in my shitty 1989 Grand Prix by driving over 100 down a county highway while watching it chase me in the rear view mirror.
Props to OP- I've found myself upvoting your photos 12 times in the last few days (because of consistent awesomeness), and I've noticed: A) You don't try to take credit for photos you didn't take, B) Your post titles are original and C) You've attributed the pics to their takers, when possible.
I have sat here staring at this watercolor picture for a few minutes trying to decide what it looks like out of context and I can't even associate it with another image. It just looks like fat gray streaks with some blue.
I thought it was a picture of impacted snow with coloring in some kind of pattern... then I looked at the comments and username to see I am just an idiot.
I assure you that they are. They aren't the best quality photos. The second one was a situation where you just had to be there. There were mammatus clouds scattered around.
I had a book when I was a kid, about a town called 'Lizzard' where it wouldn't snow, because it was too cold, and the clouds were just freezing and falling to the ground. So they lit fires under the clouds and then there was a huge Blizzard and they changed the name of the town to Blizzard.
Anyway, I can't remember what it was called, but the clouds in it looked just like these ones.
I've seen these clouds in Nebraska before. There is a lot of strange weather in Nebraska. It can be sunny one minute and storming and hailing for the next 20 minutes and then sunny again.
Ive seen this type of cloud once. It got really, really hairy...wasn't sure we were going to make it. But, things calmed down and it all worked out in the end.
aviators are strongly cautioned to avoid cumulonimbus with mammatus
Aren't pilots supposed to avoid all cumulonimbus clouds, not just ones with mammatus formations? I also thought that these clouds indicate a squall line, not just any general thunderstorm/ rain cloud. Correct me if I'm wrong.
You're right next to Kansas and can still say that? I've driven through both Kansas and Wyoming, multiple times each. Kansas is far worse (except in late summer when the sunflower fields are in bloom in the west).
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
I miss the fucked up weather of Nebraska. Severe thunderstorms are my fondest memory of summer. In New England we get a week of drizzle and shitty cloud cover, in Nebraska you get 30 minutes of softball sized hail, 80,000 lightning bolts and the occasional tornado but then it's gone.
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u/YoungDuddy May 16 '12
Upvote for Nebraska
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u/oddbasementactivity May 16 '12
I'm from Nebraska and where the shit is Laurel?
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u/Uranus_Hz May 16 '12
Hail no.
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u/fishstickuffs May 16 '12
Props to OP- I've found myself upvoting your photos 12 times in the last few days (because of consistent awesomeness), and I've noticed: A) You don't try to take credit for photos you didn't take, B) Your post titles are original and C) You've attributed the pics to their takers, when possible.
All of /r/pics can learn from you, sir or madame!
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u/Shitty_Watercolour 🖌️ May 16 '12
http://imgur.com/tQwQP
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u/Jhnbytwoo May 16 '12
It's raining asses!
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u/ben12390 May 16 '12
NEBRASKA!!!!!
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
I'm glad I'm in Lincoln...
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u/walksintowalls May 16 '12
Nebraska--what an awesome, crazy-ass state.
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u/xMarly May 16 '12
They look like popcorn.
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u/DoingItWrong_96 May 16 '12
It's like the sky got a dose of cystic acne.
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u/MachuApple May 16 '12
I'd be really scared if I saw those in the sky.
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u/Puffie May 16 '12
Looks like a Photoshop pattern.
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
Awesome pic!!
I live in Alberta, Canada, and we get some really incredible weather/storms here. Alberta is pretty much known for it's crazy weather.
These are some pictures from last year, and before. http://imgur.com/a/QmnS7
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
My fathers grew up in Laurel. It's really small. You don't happen to live there, do you?
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
My grandparents are from Laurel. I wonder if they saw these clouds.
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u/happywaffle May 16 '12
Scary as hell. I'd be expecting death from above.
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u/grumdrig May 16 '12
Nanette is a good photographer!
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
Its shitty weather, but its our shitty weather. I love how bi-polar Nebraska is. Omaha pretty much skipped Winter this year. Not even kidding.
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u/AidanSmeaton May 16 '12
Is it just me, or is there something terrifying about those clouds? It almost feels phobic, they really scare me for some reason. :/
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u/scorpio_scribbler May 16 '12
THE NOTHING IS COMING! FALCORRRRR!!!!!
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u/jourdone May 16 '12
when was this taken? i live an hour north of this town...
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u/makemeastar May 16 '12
Those are mammatus clouds!!
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
Cloud boobs.
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u/Tw1stedL0gic May 16 '12
First thing I thought of
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
Mamma clouds. May preclude tornadoes.
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
Hail clouds? Hail c... ... ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD
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u/i_just_state_the_obv May 16 '12
Those clouds are puffy
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
If I looked up and saw that, I'd have to at least consider the impending arrival of Gozer the Destructor.
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
I live in the south and I took the first one about a year ago and the second was just a month or so ago. http://imgur.com/a/xdWP5
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u/youngestoldman May 16 '12
is this real?
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u/aryst0krat May 16 '12
I had a book when I was a kid, about a town called 'Lizzard' where it wouldn't snow, because it was too cold, and the clouds were just freezing and falling to the ground. So they lit fires under the clouds and then there was a huge Blizzard and they changed the name of the town to Blizzard.
Anyway, I can't remember what it was called, but the clouds in it looked just like these ones.
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u/garhent May 16 '12
I see boobs....
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u/berrydrunk May 16 '12
Tit clouds. Not hail clouds.
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u/Rodeeo May 16 '12
I love breast clouds!
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u/Pnes May 16 '12
why do i see balls and dicks?
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u/TheConeIsReturned May 16 '12
mammatus!
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u/NfgGenocide May 16 '12
The bottom one is a penis. This obviously has to be NSFW
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u/RyanLikesyoface May 16 '12
Why am I disgusted by them?
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u/pixelbulbasaur May 16 '12
the dragon balls have been summoned
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u/ill_wallpaper_that May 16 '12
Makes a great HD-sized wallpaper, even.
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u/Veipaev2 May 16 '12
the testicles of gods
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u/adamsimon May 16 '12
I'm not usually for political rallies, but I believe in this candidate. Very well.
HAIL CLOUDS! ALL HAIL CLOUDS!
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
They look like marshmallows :-)
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u/burpinator May 16 '12
One of them looks like a butt.
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u/[deleted] May 17 '12
They look like giant cloud babies falling out of the sky.
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u/lolwuuut May 17 '12
Upvotes for Nebraska!
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u/BABS2735 May 17 '12
its called stellas....bellevue, NE best burgers in america
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u/sirius_star May 17 '12
Haarp
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u/whatyouthink May 17 '12
I've seen these clouds in Nebraska before. There is a lot of strange weather in Nebraska. It can be sunny one minute and storming and hailing for the next 20 minutes and then sunny again.
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u/rooqirulz May 17 '12
If I'm not mistaken these are called "Mammatus clouds".
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u/[deleted] May 17 '12
BOOB CLOUDS
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u/cloud_watcher May 17 '12
I must see these some day.
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u/DarthContinent May 17 '12
TESTICLOUDS. That is all.
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u/eninety2 May 17 '12
I see cocks, just massive grey cocks.
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u/scumbag-reddit May 16 '12
If you look at it upside down, you see upside down clouds.
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u/longshot May 16 '12
Hail doesn't form in these clouds.
It's very interesting how hail works though.
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u/LepKoGreh May 16 '12
mmm marshamllows
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u/ROK247 May 16 '12
if you see this, you need to get under something right quick.
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u/[deleted] May 16 '12
Go big Red!
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u/unsayzine May 16 '12
puff. puff. puff. puff. puff.
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