Last night a storm came through unlike any I have ever witnessed! It approached calmly after a very hot day and a walk in the park under a hot, clouded sky, oddly abandoned like animals disappear prior to an earthquake. When I got home the storm started with a barf of water. The trees waved like huge, mad underwater squid, golf hail punished the windows, breaking one; rain came in clouds that swallowed the buildings behind us. The sky was FULL of lightning. For perhaps half an hour there were between 5 and 10 flashes per second! ( I carefully counted for quite a while) When I was finally able to open the window a crack, the woodwork armored with towels, there was a strange and deeply frightening noise- the constant, unvariegated roar of thunder, like a continuously tumbling building! Then this morning dawns calm and beautiful- as if nothing happened!! But the world is changed. Down the street huge trees hundreds of years old were toppled. Our neighbors lost all their windows. Welcome to the new world of climate change.
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