Have you ever been in a violent and prolonged thunderstorm?
It is magnificent!
It is a constant pounding of pelting rain and drowning noise
as waves and waves of squall-like rain-sheets attack anything solid in its path
with a thunderous roar of collision. It is turbulence with fierce sustained
winds that whip and twist the air into knotted currents of vortextual power. It
is unadulterated energy that strikes indiscriminately with millions of volts of
electricity and announces its presence with a deafening clap.
I was in one of those storms yesterday. Wow! It was
wonderful to experience the sustained power of nature while being perfectly
safe.
I was driving on a super highway when the Cumulus Nimbus formation reached its altitude limit and let loose with open drains in an instantaneous deluge
of blowing torrential rain.
Highway speeds slowed from 70-plus to 20 MPH or slower in
seconds. Dozens of cars pulled to the side of the highway to wait out the
passing squall. My windshield wipers could not sweep fast enough to keep up
with the gush of rain.
Lightening strikes were one after another. It was flash and
boom, strike and a deafening clap right next to me. I would jump at the noise
and my skin crawled with ionic charges in the atmosphere.
There were trees down from lightening strikes and leafy
clusters festooned the highway and then suddenly – sunlight.
The storm had
passed, but not the reminder of nature's power.
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