Comments | zolac_no_miko: I hope the flooding's not too bad at Grandma's....

zolac_no_miko

I hope the flooding's not too bad at Grandma's....

May 02, 2011 17:32

Two thunder storms in a row here, guys. What even.

:DDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

ETA: NOW WITH WATERSPOUTS OFF WAIKIKI BEACH :DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

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cradle_song May 3 2011, 06:45:08 UTC

DUDE those look so awesome.

WHY DO I HAVE TO LIVE IN A DESERT. D:

zolac_no_miko May 4 2011, 02:38:04 UTC

Notsomuch with the twisters, huh?

They don't happen terribly often here, either, and luckily they don't usually get very big. These are the first I've ever seen, anywhere- thus the excitement.

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zolac_no_miko May 4 2011, 02:40:05 UTC

XDDDDDDDDDDDD

WELL, NO SHIT, I BEEN SHOT AT, LIKE, NINE TIMES SINCE I ARRIVED.

sirona_gs May 3 2011, 09:10:42 UTC

Whoa! At least -- interesting weather won't let you get bored! :D

zolac_no_miko May 4 2011, 10:31:37 UTC

Duuuuuuuuuuude, ok, you have no idea how happy I am right now. I mean, first of all, I just happen to really like storms, and secondly, I have never in my life seen a twister anywhere, and they don't happen terribly often in Hawaii, so those waterspouts were REALLY EXCITING. And then, just... there's this thing about me and storms, okay, I was born in a storm amid thunder and lightning and record rains and flash flooding and storm surges and waterspouts, and in 2000 I wrote a poem about a flood washing houses away and THAT NIGHT a supercell thunderstorm dumped A METER OF RAIN on us and WASHED HOUSES INTO THE STREET and it was the worst flood in Hilo in recorded history, and I have about a billion anecdotes about times I have gone traveling and while I was gone the rainiest city in the United States didn't get a single drop of water, for weeks, and the day I come back a goddamn thunderstorm comes with me, okay, it's a THING ( ... )

zolac_no_miko May 4 2011, 10:59:49 UTC

Incidentally, tonight it is very windy. Also there is some rain. ^_^ <3 <3 <3

sirona_gs May 4 2011, 19:51:53 UTC

Oh my god, that's amazing! It's like the island is welcoming you home!! I just had to drive for two and a half hours through pretty bad rain, and I gotta say I pretty much loved it! <3

b_c_draygon May 3 2011, 11:21:01 UTC

Good Lord, that's terrifying. O.O How are you smiling about this?!

*is kind of glad that the most extreme weather in the UK is the occasional gale-force wind*

zolac_no_miko May 4 2011, 10:46:49 UTC

I really really really love storms. ...But you know, I'm kind of surprised at myself, because despite never having seen a twister in my life (prior to this), I have this deep-seated, irrational fear of tornadoes (not that it's irrational to be afraid of tornadoes, it's just that the way in which my fear manifests itself is... trust me, it's irrational), so if things had gone differently I could've ended up curled in a ball crying, or something. But these waterspouts were small, and they were far away, and they were offshore, so the sense of danger was sufficiently diminished, enough that I just found the experience to be unutterably cool. I mean, you don't see that shit every day! Twenty-five years I've not seen that, and... off Waikiki of all places! Just- :DDDDD

Anyway, storms love me. See my comment to Sirona, above. Basically I feel like those waterspouts are my freaking Welcome Home party.

jamafanta May 3 2011, 22:58:28 UTC

Wow! Did you take those pictures?

zolac_no_miko May 4 2011, 10:51:36 UTC

I did! With my phone, off the balcony of my friends' apartment in Makiki.