It's Not Just a Special Effect

[liralen]

Last night in the middle of the night, I heard a crack of thunder and saw the room lit with a flash even though the curtains had been drawn in the bedroom. The window of the bathroom was open, so I hopped up and went into the bathroom to close the window; and just as I managed to get it closed and battened down, the rain started pouring down as if

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[agrimony]

I love thunderstorms in the Northeast. I really do. It's one of the things I missed so much when I lived in the Bay Area. They get rain, but even when they get lightning, it's just not the same thing. Here it can seem like the end of days has come. During the day, when a storm like that rolls in the world gets twilight dark. The thunder starts to rumble. Then you get a flash or two of quick lightning. Sometimes the rain starts out light, sometimes it starts all at once at its heaviest, usually the deluge is signaled by a sudden bright flash of lightning and loud thunder. Then the thunder becomes seemingly endless, one rumble rolling into another and then another. The rain pours down, and if you watch it over a parking lot or some other hard surface, you can actually see the waves of it moving. The winds whip the trees. Rain drops hit the ground so hard they bounce back up.

It's a truly awesome sight and experience.

[liralen]

I can see why you missed them. Wow... yeah, the wind whipping through was great!

We get some of that in Colorado, heck, we get a thunderstorm nearly every afternoon... but not with quite the intensity...

[7veilsphaedra]

Wow! I love how you describe the experience. It's very visceral and exciting.

And with all those folk-style musicians, I keep thinking of the Rolling Thunder Revue for some reason.

[liralen]

*laughs*

Yes. I can see the connection!!

[incandescens]

Your description of it was lovely.

I also suspect you were taking mental notes. :)

[liralen]

Totally. *laughs* I'm sure you would have as well...

[incandescens]

Oh, absolutely. How could one not? :)

[nikita_cheri111]

What's really fun is when you get all of that and dark as night in the middle of the afternoon. Sunshine then about three minutes of darkening and then WHAM! Water thundering down in sheets, lightning the only light to be had and thunder rolling so loud you feel the walls rattle... ten minutes of that, another minute of lighting changes and then blue skies as far as the eye can see... Michigan is jacked up sometimes. Motto of the Michigander: Don't like the weather? Wait five minutes.

[liralen]

*grins*

Well, we get that kind of instant change in Colorado, and back when we were in Seattle as well. LA not so much. *laughs* In CO it's usually a mix of bright sun and rain or snow or hail or... whatever... tornadoes just a few miles east, too. But, yeah, that torrential rain is pretty common on the desert. It was fun to see this one, though.

It's lovely and crazy. *laughs*

[liralen]

*laughs and laughs*

It's fun to hear your take as well. Whew... that would scare me, the lightning, that is. Lightning kills more people in Colorado every year than nearly any other blessed thing. It's all that wide-open land, nothing else to draw the strike...

I'm glad you two got through that safely!

[liralen]

*laughs* that fits Kris to a T... wow.