Aug 02 2010

Thunderstorms

Posted by Chris in Chris
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I miss thunderstorms. I grew up in Ohio where on a good summer night you could sit outside and watch the lightning as the storm moved in. It was always an awesome show and nice and relaxing. You were always looking to figure out where the lightning was going to strike next and laughing when the lightning was far away and jumping when it was right next door. I probably did not appreciate it enough at the time, but I still enjoyed them.

Now, in Colorado, we still get thunderstorms but where I am at they are usually short and very strong tempests. And they usually are at 4 in the afternoon, not prime lightning watching time. Typically we do not get lines of storms that you see coming 30 miles away, partly because my horizon to the west is only 10 miles. At 4 in the afternoon in 15 minutes we go from sunny, to golf ball size hail, to torrential rains, to sunny again. Not nearly as enjoyable as the long drawn out storms of the midwest. I miss lightning shows.

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