Thunderstorm!

[hsapiens]

It has been far too long since we had a proper thunderstorm. I've been listening to one blow in all evening and now it's finally got enough steam to force air in through the crack under one of the doors. The wind is a wonderful, eerie sound that would be right at home in a creepy movie.

I love thunderstorms. When I'm inside and dry, that is.

Comments

[tejas.livejournal.com]

What kind of wild weather *do* you get?

[superbadgirl]

Squalls. And ... uhm ... yeah. Rain-induced mass flooding.

In the spring it is quite common to have rain, sun, sleet, hail, sun, rain, sun, sleet, rain and sun all on the same day, not necessarily in that order but definitely in that frequency. ;)

[tejas.livejournal.com]

Sleet is a rarity for us. But rain to the point of flooding is a fact of life around here.

[hsapiens.livejournal.com]

You'd think some people who'd lived here for any length of time would know to pull into an elevated parking lot and wait out the flooding. Not fun at all but better than a flooded car.

[tejas.livejournal.com]

Really.

[hsapiens.livejournal.com]

With you on the flooding. The designed this city for the streets to flood as a way of protecting the houses and businesses. Yet we have so many new residents and plain old unobservant old ones that when it's raining hard, lots of motorists fail to pull into an elevated parking lot to wait it out, with the inevitable footage of flooded cars.

It's sort of a rite of passage to send the newest/youngest/most gullible tv reporter out into the flood to remind people not to get out in flood waters because not only does it drive out the snakes (we have water moccasins, a particularly venomous and aggressive species) but the fire ants ball up as a floating raft and will swarm anything solid they hit.

Happily, we rarely have sleet.