Outside, the stormclouds gathering

[sovay]

Hello, tornado warning in Lexington. That's unusual.

(I was called home from the library: into a smoky green storm-coming sky, lightning cracking pink-hot through it. I love storms. I write poems about them. The wind rising upstairs is astonishing.)

ETA: Lightning you can read by. Sweet.

Comments

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

The sky was unearthly! It was like a mother ship had touched down.

There was a tornado in Springfield, and the ninja girl saw hail the size of golf balls....

Looking forward to any eventual poems that come.

[sovay]

There was a tornado in Springfield, and the ninja girl saw hail the size of golf balls....

We had hail here very early in the morning, but I imagine it had added itself to the humidity within seconds; it was like walking through wet terrycloth all day. The lightning is strobing beautifully, though, flickering so steadily that colors are easily seen across the street. I love watching the leaves light up from the wrong sides.

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

The effect you mention in the post--of the lightning in the clouds making them glow pink--is one I love.

wakanomori has a 25-second video of lightning strikes from before the storm had actually hit over on his page--they look truly like thunderbolts hurled, or like very, very thin dancers.

[sovay]

of lightning strikes from before the storm had actually hit over on his page--they look truly like thunderbolts hurled, or like very, very thin dancers.

Poem!

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Yes! Okay, I will write you one!

[kenjari.livejournal.com]

I've spent a lot of time out on my porch, watching the storm. Now I've got the Symphony of Psalms on - partly as soundtrack, partly to drown out the fire alarm going off in a nearby building.

[sovay]

Now I've got the Symphony of Psalms on - partly as soundtrack, partly to drown out the fire alarm going off in a nearby building.

I'm sorry about the fire alarms, but as a soundtrack that's pretty awesome.

[strange-selkie.livejournal.com]

How's your headache?

[sovay]

How's your headache?

I don't have one at all; I almost put it in the post.

[strange-selkie.livejournal.com]

Aw, man! (kidding. Kidding. Also glad your house is still standing.)

Global warming? I don't think it exists.

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

Isn't it gorgeous?

Nine

[sovay]

Isn't it gorgeous?

I am sorry it wasn't more of a storm, although I really wouldn't have liked the roof to be ripped off.

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

The streets were crazy with sirens here. I hope nothing was struck.

Wet books would not be good.

Nine

[selidor]

Ooh, that's like the one I had while observing last week (minus the tornado, fortunately). Being able to see colour by lightning is a wonderful thing!

It was all very spectacular until the building fire alarm went off. This must be a common thing for thunderstorms. It was 2 am so everyone was at work, but no-one evacuated because the rain was forming a solid wall beyond the edges of the roofs.

[sovay]

It was all very spectacular until the building fire alarm went off.

That's just a great sentence.

This must be a common thing for thunderstorms.

Fireworks, too.

It was 2 am so everyone was at work, but no-one evacuated because the rain was forming a solid wall beyond the edges of the roofs.

Wow.

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

Goodness. I'm glad it was a visually beautiful storm, but more glad that you'd come through okay, and I hope this continues to be the case.

A friend of mine was teaching in a fourth floor classroom in Springfield, and had a bit of a scare when the windows went, but neither she nor the students were hurt.

[sovay]

A friend of mine was teaching in a fourth floor classroom in Springfield, and had a bit of a scare when the windows went, but neither she nor the students were hurt.

I'm glad to hear that. So far no one I know has been hurt.

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I'm glad nobody you know had been hurt, and I hope this continues to be the case.

It was an odd night, here, that one. A clear sky, and not a trace of rain did fall, but the air felt as if it might start raining at any minute. I almost didn't put out the newspapers for recycling, even though they needed disposed of.

[gaudynight78.livejournal.com]

About 15 minutes after arriving at work yesterday morning, I jumped about a mile when the thunder struck (completely unexpectedly - I had biked in and it had seemed like a normal muggy morning) almost directly overhead. It sounded like a big pile of corrugated iron had been dumped off the roof of the building next door.

At 8 PM, the sky was BRIGHT YELLOW.

[sovay]

At 8 PM, the sky was BRIGHT YELLOW.

We had some of that, too—and a streaked, sulfurous red sky, like sunset in Hell. It was great.