Insert emotions where words fail

[eddo42]

This was actually posted Sunday night, about 1152 pm. Post is timestamped to reflect time of actual writing. The last few flickers die away. I am left lamenting that this, like all good things, must come to an end. The National Weather Service detected a severe thunderstorm 16 miles southeast of L'Anse at 0534, moving eastward at 45 mph, and

Comments

[jarlalex]

The only conventional wisdom I know about windows and thunderstorms is that you need to be close to the window so that the reflective glare of internal light apparatus doesn't interfere with the view. Is there something else that I haven't been told?

[eddo42]

Supposedly, it's not safe to be near windows (even the NWS warnings said so). Why this is, I haven't been able to figure out. It's the roof that's in danger of getting struck, not an arbitrary section of a wall that happens to be transparent. This is partly why I chose to blatantly ignore said "wisdom".

[jarlalex]

I suppose that said wall sections are more likely to transmogrify in to shrapnel, but that's generally true regardless of the weather.

[eddo42]

I am surprised that the forest west of Hancock does not burst into flame...

In retrospect, this was a little prophetic, although the fire started was in two adjacent houses on Houghton Avenue, just south of US-41 in Houghton.