catastophe weather
So, it hailed this evening -- blueberry-sized ice pellets pummelling the windows of my apartment. It flooded the sidewalk across the street and felled branches. A friend said she went out into the floods, and reported them as higher than her knees. It also flashed lightning long and huge and far away for many minutes first. Somehow my sweetie and I got lucky and managed to park and lock the van, and walk home, before the storm hit.
A few weeks back, the sky turned green and suddenly stormed. A deluge of water, a torrent of rain -- falling sideways out our windows, as my sweetie and i looked on in wonder. I knew it to be tornado weather, but still was shocked when it turned out that there had actually been a tornado in Brooklyn, blowing out the entrance of a hospital, felling more trees.
There's this moment in the Day After Tomorrow, an environmental catastrophe movie, when all of the birds and rats start fleeing the city -- birds overhead, rats running down hill on Wall Street. And still the group of kids visiting the city with their school don't think to, oh, I don't know, LEAVE. I sort of had that feeling looking out the window at tonight's weather event...
... like, what would it take? And where would we go?
A few weeks back, the sky turned green and suddenly stormed. A deluge of water, a torrent of rain -- falling sideways out our windows, as my sweetie and i looked on in wonder. I knew it to be tornado weather, but still was shocked when it turned out that there had actually been a tornado in Brooklyn, blowing out the entrance of a hospital, felling more trees.
There's this moment in the Day After Tomorrow, an environmental catastrophe movie, when all of the birds and rats start fleeing the city -- birds overhead, rats running down hill on Wall Street. And still the group of kids visiting the city with their school don't think to, oh, I don't know, LEAVE. I sort of had that feeling looking out the window at tonight's weather event...
... like, what would it take? And where would we go?