8/07/2006

lightning storms rule!

So, there's one really sweet thing about living in Walla Walla: the Western lightning storms. It's great because where I live there are very few clouds in the sky (and the clouds we do have are small, light, and fluffy), there is a full moon out, it is not raining and there is a very slight and gentle breeze, but 100 miles to the west there is an AMAZING lightning storm going on in about 1/3 of the sky. There is the main display right in the middle and it goes off about once every minute or so, then there is the unusual display to its left which goes off about once every 5-10 minutes and has red, pink, and orange lightning. Then, on either side of both of those displays, there are the side-shows which go off about once every 10-15 minutes and are usually quite small, but still bright. It's just non-stop lightning out there. I love it! I rode a bike to the top of a hill and sat in somebody's field of who-knows-what and I just watched the storm for about an hour. It was grand.