I picked up Son from work last week and drove home in the middle of an incredible thunder storm. We stopped on the side of the road to watch the lightning display when I noticed something in the clouds overhead.
The clouds started rotating and then part of the sky turned green, both symptoms of an impending tornado. I called home and told Beautiful Wife to get the girls into the basement, just in case, which caused a major panic.
Youngest Daughter has a fear of twisters, since seeing the movie by that name, and she came totally unglued. Middle Daughter and Oldest Daughter were refusing to go and making fun of the whole thing until a clap of thunder shook the house and they ran screaming for the basement too. I got to hear this all over the cell phone before suggesting that we should hang up.
Son and I drove home and watched lightning strikes in the fields as we drove by. The thunder crashed as soon as the lightning struck so they were close. You could feel the concussion through the floor boards of the car.
We thought it was an awesome display of power by Nature's air conditioner, the thunder storm.
Posted by bbarton at June 14, 2004 09:41 AM