Thinking of Thunder and Lightning
This morning after Audrey trundled off to work, I felt lazy and decided to lie in bed and read for a while. I watched a little of the news of elections and then picked up my book and began to read. Well, actually I don't remember reading much.
I do remember a very loud clap of THUNDER and shortly and even LOUDER clap. So, the lightening was close. Power went off and quickly returned leaving all the clocks in the house blinking 12:00. Really I didn't see all of them at once, just the two in the bedroom.
It reminded me of the log house in Cape Breton where a bolt of lightening hit the power pole at the end of the drive, went down the pole underground on the power line to the house and entered behind the refrigerator where it blew up the outlet where the fridge was plugged. No one hurt. Fridge still worked just a new plug needed. Thankfully we had no antennas on the roof that would have channelled the lightening more directly.
That reminded me of the times when I was in St. Bonaventure Univ. The Univ. was situated in a valley south of the foothills of the Allegany mountains. It was not unusual for us to see lightening beyond the hills when a storm was approaching. Dave Yokim and I often took our exercise after dinner on the front drive of the campus which ran straight north toward the hills. We would see lightening in the sky and seconds later hear the thunder. We enjoyed the lightening as it hit in various patterns. We thought nothing of it until one night for some reason the thunder sounded behind us. We turned to see massive black clouds charging in our direction from the south and more lightening and thunder almost simultaneously. Dave, being well over three hundred pounds did not run well. But that night he sprinted with me trying to catch up.
Ah, thunder which warns that the danger has passed. But also warns that there may be more danger coming. Wouldn't it be nice if other dangerous things in life provided a warning. But perhaps I am misinterpreting because the reality precedes the warning if you are where the lightening hits. I wonder if people hit by lightening hear the thunder also.
Did you ever pound the horn of your car after you swerved to avoid a collision? Thunder after the lightening???
I do remember a very loud clap of THUNDER and shortly and even LOUDER clap. So, the lightening was close. Power went off and quickly returned leaving all the clocks in the house blinking 12:00. Really I didn't see all of them at once, just the two in the bedroom.
It reminded me of the log house in Cape Breton where a bolt of lightening hit the power pole at the end of the drive, went down the pole underground on the power line to the house and entered behind the refrigerator where it blew up the outlet where the fridge was plugged. No one hurt. Fridge still worked just a new plug needed. Thankfully we had no antennas on the roof that would have channelled the lightening more directly.
That reminded me of the times when I was in St. Bonaventure Univ. The Univ. was situated in a valley south of the foothills of the Allegany mountains. It was not unusual for us to see lightening beyond the hills when a storm was approaching. Dave Yokim and I often took our exercise after dinner on the front drive of the campus which ran straight north toward the hills. We would see lightening in the sky and seconds later hear the thunder. We enjoyed the lightening as it hit in various patterns. We thought nothing of it until one night for some reason the thunder sounded behind us. We turned to see massive black clouds charging in our direction from the south and more lightening and thunder almost simultaneously. Dave, being well over three hundred pounds did not run well. But that night he sprinted with me trying to catch up.
Ah, thunder which warns that the danger has passed. But also warns that there may be more danger coming. Wouldn't it be nice if other dangerous things in life provided a warning. But perhaps I am misinterpreting because the reality precedes the warning if you are where the lightening hits. I wonder if people hit by lightening hear the thunder also.
Did you ever pound the horn of your car after you swerved to avoid a collision? Thunder after the lightening???
posted by Oldguy | 5:23 pm
2 Comments:
:) Interesting comparison at the end... now I'm pondering!
funny comparison. I honked after swerving just last weekend. Highly ineffective approach. :)
I did not know that our fridge got hit by lightning in Grand River. Lucky it wasn't worse.
Once, while I was in Bermuda we had a really bad thunder and lightning storm, with both seeming to happen simultaneously. It was intense and I ran around unplugging our various and sundry electronics. Then next day I found out the lightning had struck at a horse farm 1/2 a km from my apartment and fried all the electronics. No one was hurt but there was a lot of work keeping the horses fed and watererd while they had the damage fixed.
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