Then I heard thunder and saw some lightning very close at hand. The rain was incredibly intense. As I sat here typing I could see a rainbow in the receding storm.
So I grabbed my trusty cellphone and took a couple of pictures. First, the rainbow:
Then I noticed just how localized the storm was:
Click to enlarge - it really was an amazing storm.
People on the other side of town didn't even get any rain while we got a big ol' mess of it.
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We've had explosive thunderstorms the past three days. Power outages all over the county. My wife and I had to go to Asheville today, so we stopped for lunch at the Mellow Mushroom downtown (don't get me started on all the hipster douchebags we saw). We opted to eat inside because it was obviously going to start raining any time. Holy cow, did it rain. When we left, after sitting for awhile waiting for the rain to stop, there was about a six or seven foot wide river running down both sides of the street, next to the curbs. It was about six inches deep, so we had to walk up and down the street, trying to find someplace to cross. Fortunately, when it stopped raining, it stopped like someone turned off a faucet, so we weren't getting soaked while we searched for a dry path.
Levon's little girl: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tj9XwDLue5A
That's what I am talkin' about!
As for HDBs, I now, in retrospect, realize I missed a veritable gold mine when I didn't become a tattoo artist when I lost my job in 2002. I could have been rich, rich I'm tellin' ya! Those morons are walking billboards to bad tattoo "art".
Love watching thunderheads pop up in the sky. Even better viewing from an airplane.
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