"A Storm On The Horizon"

One of the things I'll really miss about Oklahoma is the storms. Oklahoma has spectacular storms in the spring. Thunder, lightning, rain pounding the landscape into a muddy pulp...it's great to just lay in bed late at night and listen to rain drum on the windows, watch the flash of lightning light up the sky like day, and hear the rumble of thunder as it echoes down the plains. You see clouds build up into these monolithic towers on the horizon and come swooping in, dumping their payload of rain on the surrounding area.

Yeah, you get tornadoes, but that's part of the fun--there's always an element of energy in the air when a tornado is about to hit, and Oklahoma's weather service system is good enough that we can usually get advanced warning for the things.

I don't know if Virginia has storms the way Oklahoma does. I doubt they do, 'cause there's really no place like this in the US (well, maybe Kansas, but even they're dryer. So's Texas, and those two states are the closest to us in terms of climate). I will miss the storms.

~chuck

Song of the Moment: Wilco, "A Shot in the Arm"