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u4ic

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32. Yikes!

Reply to laundry_queen (Reply #29)

Sat Jun 1, 2013, 12:28 AM

Jun 2013

Good thing I moved away, you might have attracted another one.

My sister and her family lived in Edmonton at the time, they said they were walking out of Superstore and saw the clouds. She said she'd never seen clouds like that before, the storm was quite unbelievable. It blazed through not far away (97/99th St area as I recall, they were in the Southgate area).

Last year there was the first lightning storm here in many years, people were lined up all along the waterfront taking pictures. The papers were flooded with them as well. It was amusing to me.

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