Thunderstorms Are Swell.
The fireflies aren’t getting any tonight. Their feeble butts just can’t compete with the sodium glare of Zeus arc welder. We mid-Ohioians take our celebration of the Fourth very seriously. But I’m sorry Columbus, the Red, White and Boom will appear stunted and fake and oh so human. Hot Karl! The gods put on their dancing shoes tonight.
Have you ever seen the lightening storms that have strikes six and seven times a second? Have you ever seen that last for an hour plus, unabated? It’s far enough away that the only noise is local traffic and a distant muted timpani roll. Nothing but hazy clear in the twenty mile from the front to my fields. Nothing to obscure the view of towering stacks of clouds fighting frantic with their glowing spider arms.
No laser shows. No fireworks displays. No televised Shock and Awe can compare with Nature when she’s feeling frisky.
Have you ever seen the lightening storms that have strikes six and seven times a second? Have you ever seen that last for an hour plus, unabated? It’s far enough away that the only noise is local traffic and a distant muted timpani roll. Nothing but hazy clear in the twenty mile from the front to my fields. Nothing to obscure the view of towering stacks of clouds fighting frantic with their glowing spider arms.
No laser shows. No fireworks displays. No televised Shock and Awe can compare with Nature when she’s feeling frisky.
posted by Lord of the Barnyard at 11:10 PM
4 Comments:
Lotb: The only time I saw anything remotely like what you're talking about was in Greeley, Colorado in 1978. Storm in the middle of the night. In the a.m., there was no trace a storm had been through. Seattle has nothing like that. Just pelting rain or wind.
I saw that last night too Drew...I'm between Findlay and Lima and it was quite a show, even knocked out my power for a while.
i really love the way that you wrote this. your posts like this one are my favorite ro read.
f-town.
i've been meaning to do a post on it, but seem to keep putting it off.
it's dry. it has three stoplights.
it's insular. it's not "pretty" but it's not as run down as some other small ohio towns. the newspaper reports the fact that the power went out while people were playing bingo at the vfw and people went home to get candles to keep playing. upton sinclair wrote Main Street. you should read it. it's mostly true. for fun we toilet paper each other and spread malicious rumors. there is nothing for kids to do. your truck determines the pecking order. the school system isn't terrible. but it isn't going ot improve much either. i could go on. what do you want to know about it? send me an email.
kid dot twist at gmail dot com
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