April 03, 2007
Thunder and Lightening
Last night included the most impressive set of thunderstorms I've ever seen. Most of the counties surrounding ours had severe thunderstorm warnings and a series of thunders cells passed just south of our apartment complex. Fortunately we have south-facing windows.
From about 8pm until after midnight there were huge lightening strikes across the sky every 5 to 30 seconds. For about a half hour after one of the storms passed over head (around 11 - 12ish) there was near constant thunder. Alan was reading at that point, so I opened up my bedroom windows and just watched the storm for a while. It was glorious.
I can never get over how much nature fascinates me. You can't call down a thunderstorm or save up sunshine for a rainy day. You can't bottle the smell of rain (well you can, not very well) or the sound of rain beating on the windows. Weather doesn't last, but it will eventually be back again. On one level I'm sad that global warming is going to cause so many painful climate related problems, but on the other I'm thrilled that I'll get to see things I never had a chance to before.
On an unrelated note, I want to mention that my laptop is now burnt or dead. My current guess is that there's an issue with my video card, but it's out of warranty and I don't think there's much I can do about it. The hard drive is probably okay, but some surgery might be required to get the hard drive and my data out.
This really hasn't been a good evening for me.
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