Not tornadoes

How creepy is this. We lost power for about an hour when a transformer got struck by lightning. When we got our power back and checked the weather report, these formations are called "shelf clouds."

[karenann]

Ohhhh .... they're kind of scary!! What a great capture ..love the cloud formations and the clarity of each one. Great collage.

[Kerri]

Beautiful collage

[Elizabeth Youngs]

Great collage! Scary looking clouds. Glad you've got your power back on.

[Rick Schies]

We arte getting the storms now, and the rain has come, finally, and the temperatures dropped a good 10 degrees. The lawn and flowers are singing their hearts out.

[Joyce Wells]

I've heard of them, but I've never seen them! Really ominous looking! Glad your power didn't stay out too long!

[Terry]

those look pretty serious. Allie, is Karen Hurd doing well?

[Allison Williams]

@sarasdadandmom She is active on FB. you ought to connect with her there. Right now she is on vacation. We are both taking an online Google class and chat about that.

[Not So Random Pics]

Pretty creepy looking clouds, but nice collage! Good thing they are not a tornado!

[bkb in the city]

Great capture of them Allison

[Helene]

amazing sky! and I love your collage too (you know I love all your collages Allison, you're the queen to tell us a story!)

[alia_801]

Interesting shapes in the clouds! Nice captures :)

[cglist]

They look pretty threatening!

[Terry]

@allie912 I have no face book account. I sent her a message though. Let us know how your google glass goes.

[Carole Imes]

Whoa...those are really ominous dark clouds with such interesting shapes. Cool collage!

[Mary Downing Hahn]

Great shot. I hear the clouds where tornados form are called wall clouds.

[Disha Parekh]

Nice collage. Very dramatic captures of the clouds.

[bruni]

Great looking collage..did these dark clouds bring some rain or are they called shelf clouds for a reason?

[Allison Williams]

@bruni According to wikipedia A shelf cloud is attached to the base of the parent cloud, which is usually a thunderstorm, and usually appears on the leading edge of a storm. We did have a soaking rain although it only lasted for an hour.

[bruni]

@allie912 Thank you Allison..did even think to googlei it. most the time I do when I'm not sure what it means.

[Ann H. LeFevre]

They sure do look ominous! We did have a nice downpour yesterday, but no shelf clouds! I guess I'm not too disappointed by that! Nice collage!

[Lois P]

They look menacing.

[The Blue Gnu]

I can almost hear the thunder - pretty scary stuff indeed! Well documented.