Thunder.

[RangerWickett]

Isn't it a beautiful sound? It gets inside you, from the air into your head, from the ground into your feet. The two meet, and make me feel comfortable in the tummy.

It's thundering right now here in Atlanta, something that happens far too rarely. In my homeland of Southeast Texas, thunderstorms are common, but I think the hills here in Georgia mess with the nice rolls of thunder. So I'm appreciating them while I can.

I just wanted to take a moment to appreciate this world's beauty.

Ooh, and that was lightning! *grin*

 

[der_kluge]

I agree. Just having moved to Virginia from Kansas, I am keenly aware of the different kinds of weather. While I don't miss the cold and snow I left behind in Kansas, I have noticed a distinct lack of tornado-inducing, hellish thunderstorms that Kansas has.

In Kansas, it's like it holds onto the rain like a precious commodity until it can't hold it anymore, than it gushes forth like a torrent, and often brings tornados along for the ride. Often these rains fall horizontally to the ground, and are sights to behold.

In Virginia, on the other hand, the rains are a gentleman's rain. Often, people here walk around in them without umbrellas as if they are only a minor nuisance. One day, eating lunch, I was admiring what I considered a mediocre rain, coming down fairly briskly, but vertically nonethless, unaccompanied by cold weather or windy conditions. The waitress inside the restaurant commented to someone on the phone "wow, it's really pouring outside", she said. "As if", I thought to myself, "come to Kansas sometime".

I've also noticed a general lack of thunder and lightning. My friend says it actually has something to do with the amount of metal in the ground. Beats me. I just know that it doesn't lightning very often here, and I had kind of missed that. It did last night, though, so that reassured me that I was still living on planet Earth. For a while I wasn't so sure.

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

I love thunderstorms. Of course, that may have to do with being born in Florida and living with them as an 'eh' occurance that you just get used to or move out.

It was funny when I moved up to the Atlanta area, though. It seems like everytime a thunderstorm hits there, the news makes it out to be worse than a tornado. Guess they just never have much to report about. It was always entertaining, though.

 

[JimAde]

We get some thunderstorms up here in New England, but I miss the big, rolling thunderboomers I grew up with in Wisconsin. It seemed like every other afternoon during the summer there was the weatherman with the little boxy tornado-warning areas on his map while the sky outside turned that funky grey-green color.

Of course now I get Nor'Easters, so it all sort of balances out.