Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand BREAK!

[kickaha]

Cold front moved in last night, temperature dropped below 70 last night, so the windows were wide open. It's still below 80, where this time yesterday it was 100 even. This is much nicer.

The lightning storm that came in with the front was *incredible*. I think that's easily in the top three electrical storms I've ever seen. Having it be over the Hudson River just made it that much more beautiful. There was a near-constant flickering for 45 minutes, and peals that redefined 'rolling thunder'... when a single barrage goes on for over 30 seconds at a time, it's pretty awe inducing. A few sub-mile strikes, but nothing too immediate. A little rain, a lot of wind, and a metric buttload of lightning. Sweet.

Comments

[ashears.livejournal.com]

Cool! I've seen a few (1, maybe 2) rare storms of that level of entertainment value (but not necessarily intensity). It's awesome to behold.

[georgmi.livejournal.com]

My enjoyment of the last such storm I encountered was significantly constrained by the fact that I was driving down Interstate 90 at the time.

At 20 miles per hour.

In the pitch dark.

Through the Montana Rockies, where the only straight road segments are the Federally-mandated ones, one mile in every five.

In a car that was new enough that I hadn't yet learned the UI enough to find the rear wiper control.

With the torrential rain reducing visibility to tens, not hundreds, of feet, and also obscuring if not entirely effacing, the paint on the road surface.

Terrified that I would encounter someone driving more slowly than I, or would be encountered by someone driving faster, with insufficient warning to avoid the collision.

With no shoulders wide enough to safely pull over and stop.

The five-year-old in the back seat, on the other hand, thought it was, and I quote, "AWESOME!"

I believe that interlude is where he learned the word for which he later substituted "silly". :)