Comments | maewyn_2: The drought has broken

maewyn_2

The drought has broken - rather violently!

Mar 22, 2010 10:41

We had a "little" storm this afternoon...

After almost four months of extremely dry weather, we learned this week that a thunderstorm had been forecast for today. The "Weather Tracker" on my computer had been sending out storm warnings throughout the day. At around 4.00 pm I heard thunder. Then "thunk, thunk, thunk". I looked out the window and ( Read more... )

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mechtild March 22 2010, 15:27:21 UTC

I love storms, Maewyn, as long as they don't drown people and wreck the land. I hope your garden wasn't devastated. It doesn't look like any trees or big limbs were down from your last photo, which is a good thing.

Beautiful double rainbow shots!

Question: how did you get that video into your post? I take it it's from your own computer, downloaded from your camera, but is it hosted by some special site and linked, or Scrapbook, or what? Thanks, Maewyn.

maewyn_2 March 23 2010, 13:19:12 UTC

My garden is not in a good shape at the moment, and it has nothing to do with the storm!

We've reached the end (hopefully!) of a long, hot, dry summer. Believe me, you wouldn't like to go out there to do any gardening over that time of the year! It's getting to the stage where it's driving me mad. The grass is overgrown in the area where I don't want it to grow, and it's dead where it should be growing! Roll on the Easter break, so that we can get in there and clean it all up!

I uploaded the video to Photobucket from my computer. I had a bit of trouble embedding it into my post. I had to post it from Photobucket to LJ rather than bringing it in from Photobucket. I had another video I wanted to add, but it was getting too late on a work night to muck around with it!

mechtild March 23 2010, 13:26:44 UTC

Good luck on the clean-up. Sounds like a good deal of toil.

I will have to look up "embedding" on the FAQ. I don't know a thing about it, although I have seen YouTube videos stuck into people's posts that way.

When you say you had to "post it from Photobucket to LJ", rather than "bringing it in from Photobucket", aren't those the same things? Doesnt' Photobucket host the images or video files and you "bring them in" or "post" them using a link? I don't understand.

maewyn_2 March 23 2010, 13:43:43 UTC

Normally when I post pictures, I go to Photobucket, click on "direct link" on the photo I want to post, copy, then go to LJ and paste it in via the picture icon. When I tried to do that with the video, it just showed the link and not the video.

Then I opened the video in Photobucket and clicked on "share". It shows options to post to Facebook, Twitter and Myspace. Across on the other side it says "share to other sites". There you can see the LJ pencil icon. Click on that, then on the Live Journal button. It then says "automatically post to Live Journal". Type in your user name, password and title, and enter.

Voila! Posted!

I actually did this while I was giving you the instructions! You should be able to see the second video that I didn't get a chance to post last night!

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samaranth March 22 2010, 20:09:30 UTC

There were lots of stories on the news last night! Very dramatic footage of the hailstorm too, though no beautiful double rainbow pictures.

I hear there are more storms forecast for this morning so take care on your way to work!

maewyn_2 March 23 2010, 13:21:09 UTC

I'll tell you what! Just go to YouTube and type in "Perth Hail Storm". There are oodles of videos!

Everything was quiet and normal this morning. There's lighting off in the distance tonight, but I can barely hear the thunder. It can stay that way, too! :)

aussiepeach March 22 2010, 23:27:12 UTC

We didn't get hail down here but the lightning was spectacular. Horizontal lightning!

maewyn_2 March 23 2010, 13:22:29 UTC

We got a little bit of hail at work (in Bentley), but Laurie said we didn't get any at home, just a few K's away.

Horizontal lighting would be an interesting sight!

collpepper March 25 2010, 02:31:29 UTC

WOW! I love the rain!

maewyn_2 March 25 2010, 11:53:33 UTC

We certainly had a lot of it all at once!

We were very lucky we didn't get hail at our place. I've seen lots of videos of huge hail stones falling in people's yards. I'm glad I wasn't there! Lots of cars were badly damaged - covered in dents where they landed and with broken windows. It's been reported on the News that the storm has caused $200 million worth of damage in the city and surrounding area.