That was quite the storm last night. An intense hour or so, occurring at sunset.
Severe storm alerts suddenly scrolling across my television. I walked outside to immediately witness a large and intimidating lightning bolt flash and streak, east to west, across the sky. Almost seemed like it was only a hundred yards away. Bright sky to the west ..... dark and threatening to the east. A weird, eerie orange glow, reminding me of the new color witnessed when we had a total solar eclipse a few summers ago. Not the same hues but reminiscent in that it was a color never seen before.
(I was expecting the spell checker to pop up on 'reminiscent' ..... maybe I got it right?)
An intense thirty minutes to an hour followed with continuous thunder, lightning, wind and heavy rain. The damaging hail mentioned on the alert didn't happen here. Not sure of the length of the fury as I lost track of time.
Then just as suddenly as it arrived, it was over. A few minutes later, it was like it never happened. there had been forecasts for 48 hours of the possibility of afternoon and evening thunderstorms but of this intensity wasn't mentioned or expected.
I read that there were 5400 lightning to ground strikes around the NW area. I don't know, but that seems a bit extreme to me.
Maybe some are accustomed to weather like this but it's a rarity here.
And through it all, I alternated between storm watching and a thirteen inning, 1-0 Yankee loss to the Mariners where there was no mention of a storm, a few hours away in Seattle.
And just an hour or two before the storm blew in, I was at the new record store in town, excitedly stumbling across a 1969 Chick Corea album, (on original vinyl, I think), that I've never seen before, with no idea what was coming our way.
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