We all stood outside and watched the brightening sky and saw amazing sights I had never seen before. I quickly installed and firmly staked down the rainfly on my tent. Just as light was breaking around 5:00 Saturday morning I could hear distant thunder in the west, muted by the distance but nearly constantly booming. I heard it never got below 80 that night.

It was the hottest muggiest night I could ever remember. We set up our tents at the edge of a clearing/woods to spend the night. Needless to say, we did not make it that year.įriday, JI arrived at a public park near Saratoga for a weekend of wilderness first aid training. Ironically, we had been planning a trip to High Falls for that August. Later that summer, we visited some leantos and read leanto logs in which people described probably the most harrowing experience of their lives. It was a full week before much of the damage was even reported in the papers-lots of folks were without power and telephones for an extended period and communication was difficult. We sat out the storm inside the camp-it was pretty scary. Lightning, thunder, and serious wind started almost immediately. As I walked from my camp down to the road there was a sudden wind shift and the northeastern sky turned a very strange shade of green. Skies were cloudy but there was no thunder or other signs of an impending storm. It was a very hot, muggy morning and I had just put on my shoes to go out for an early morning walk. I hope it doesn't generate another microburst.

I just looked at the radar (it's almost 10 pm)-there is a pretty good line of storms in Canada and they are headed in this direction. Trees with shallow root systems (common in the ADKs), are very susceptible to wind damage when the ground is soaked. And we've had a couple of huge rain storms, both last fall as well as this year. In addition to the storms already mentioned, there was a pretty significant wind event in the ADKs this past February. Interesting thread you started, Whitelief.

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