May. 28th, 2003 04:10 pm
Imperfect storm
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muckefuckAn hour ago, I was catching up on an episode of the X-flies (as Nuphy's daughter used to term it). At the bottom of the hour, the video feed was replaced by a silent still shot of a white-on-gray severe thunderstorm warning. Not five minutes earlier, Monshu called to say he was coming home and I told him, "Don't get wet!" I looked outside and saw golden light over the Loop, to the south, and masses of gray-black clouds everywhere else. I tried to go back to watching the show, but the warning kept reappearing every few minutes. They didn't even keep the audio running! How many times do they have to say "It's going to rain" when I can look out the fucking window and see that for myself? At least five times, apparently; after that, I'd missed so much exposition that there was little point in watching further.
It was a while still before the clouds burst. Actually that's misleading; rain began to fall silently at first. About ten minutes ago, we had a single flash of lightning and a crack of thunder as loud as an explosion in the street, but there's only been a couple thunderclaps since then and the rain is already starting to let up. At its height, there were scattered among the rainfall huge white drops that looked like half-melted snowflakes. Normally, I'd be excited about watching a storm, but fitful sleep has left me out of it. Furthermore, I'm unaccountably anxious about Monshu getting home. Silly, I know--a brush with death like that experienced by![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
vianegativa's boyfriends some weeks back is highly unlikely--but I will be so relieved to see the old White-Haired One cross the threshold.
It was a while still before the clouds burst. Actually that's misleading; rain began to fall silently at first. About ten minutes ago, we had a single flash of lightning and a crack of thunder as loud as an explosion in the street, but there's only been a couple thunderclaps since then and the rain is already starting to let up. At its height, there were scattered among the rainfall huge white drops that looked like half-melted snowflakes. Normally, I'd be excited about watching a storm, but fitful sleep has left me out of it. Furthermore, I'm unaccountably anxious about Monshu getting home. Silly, I know--a brush with death like that experienced by
vianegativa's boyfriends some weeks back is highly unlikely--but I will be so relieved to see the old White-Haired One cross the threshold.![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
BOOMMERS
First it was Turkish Restaurants, then Hungarian Pastry shops...now thunderstorms...
Daniel...you really know how to hurt a guy!!!!
How I envy those who live in Boomer areas. Oh, we get rain, sometimes in buckets. Oh yes, there is occasionally even hail.
BUT...we hardly ever get lightening and thunder. I remember them so well. I dream about them.
Now its true that places that get Boomers also gets tornadoes. But, atleast you get some warning when a tornado is approaching.
Earthquakes, now....that's another story....