Texas storms! We sat on our porch and watched the light show, sometimes 2-3 flashes/second, and listened to the non-stop symphony of thunder for about 20 minutes. Then the rain hit in furious sheets and filled up my rain barrels in about 15 minutes. The best part is that the temperature dropped about twenty degrees and the kids ran up and down the sidewalk til they were soaked and shivering. Then bathtime and bedtime. A good ending to any day.
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The ability to qualify for, receive, and act on personal revelation is the single most important skill that can be acquired in this life. - Julie Beck
I enjoy a good thunderstorm too. When we arrived Thursday night to Lake Erie there had been a thunderstorm that evening and it was nice and cool. But, could you send some of those furious sheets of rain our way? Our poor lawn is dry as a bone. We had someone from our lawn service tell me today that we need to water it alot more. (As if we didn't know that already).
*sob* I miss good thunderstorms ooooohhh so badly. That's the biggest thing I miss (aside from my family) living up here in the desert of Idaho. In Oklahoma I just LOVED how a black sky would sweep in and obliterate a blue sunny sky, bringing with it many gallons of rain. Here we barely get drizzles and even those not very often. *sob again*
I wish that it was legal in Colorado to have a rain catching system.
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If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom, go from us in peace. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen! - Samuel Adams
Growing up, thunderstorms were often one thing that brought our family closer together, as the power would go out and so it was dark and there was nothing to do but to sit near each other, etc. THen the power would come back on and the bonding moment was gone!
When cocokid#1 was 12 months old, we were spending the summer in Kentucky and a marvelous storm started up. The power went out and we were on our porch swing watching the sideways rain - it was just awesomely powerful. Loved it! After all this, I found out about tornadoes and tornado warnings and all that stuff... 3 houses down a 40 yr. old tree was uprooted! I had no idea, I just thought it was the coolest thing I'd ever seen. Later I did a little tornado chasing with a friend of mine back there. Awesome. I know, I know, stupid. But ... awesome. Sometimes I love feeling microscopically small.
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Life is tough but it's tougher if you're stupid. -John Wayne
New Mexico had some majestic storms during the years I lived there. Surely the term cloudburst was invented for NM.
I remember visiting City of Rocks once and a thunder boomer came on so quickly that my mom barely had time to holler for us to come get in the car before the lightning was on top of us. I had just made it to the car when lightning stuck the huge bolder about 15 feet away. The scariest part was that my brothers were both still outside one bolder over. They came running pretty quickly after that. That day I learned God didn't want me (or my brothers)dead yet.
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"The promptings of the Holy Ghost will always be sufficient for our needs if we keep to the covenant path. Our path is uphill most days, but the help we receive for the climb is literally divine." --Elaine S. Dalton
Did you know that Weld County, Colorado, is the tornado capital of the nation? We get more tornadoes here than anywhere else. Of course, the vast majority are Force 0 or Force 1.
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If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude than the animated contest of freedom, go from us in peace. May your chains sit lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen! - Samuel Adams
This supports my theory that eastern Colorado is really just an extension of Kansas.
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"The promptings of the Holy Ghost will always be sufficient for our needs if we keep to the covenant path. Our path is uphill most days, but the help we receive for the climb is literally divine." --Elaine S. Dalton
Sometimes I love feeling microscopically small.
