Lightning Strikes Sign - May 28

I was back in Pittsburgh on Wednesday and they were hit hard with weather.  There were places with golf ball sized hail and even a tornado confirmed just to the west in Jefferson County, Ohio.  While I was there, I managed to record some video of the heavy rain and lightning.  There was also a lot of ponding (or laking) on the roads.  You’ll see in the video below how much water was on the road.  That comes towards the end of the video.

We normally say “turn around, don’t drown” but there really isn’t anything you can do when you don’t see the water coming.  That was the case yesterday on Route 22 between Imperial and Robinson, PA (near the Pittsburgh International Airport).  With it raining so hard, I didn’t see the water on the road until the last minute.  I got about 3/4 of the way through the miniature lake and my car started to slow down.  I got a little nervous, but made it through… luckily.  You can see the truck in front of me go through it in the video below.

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