Quite a thunderstorm rolled through here this evening! Which is rare, in this part of the world.
It was a calm, warm, pleasant day–I was driving around in the Miata with the top down till after 5:00, and working in the yard for an hour after that–but then the sky darkened, and the wind picked up…actually, only part of the sky darkened, while we still had a placid, lovely evening to the west.
It was impossible to capture in a photograph, but this gives some sense, from before it started:
Bright sunshine and deep dark clouds.
And then the thunder! It rattled the windows. I never saw any lightning, but then, I wasn’t outside any more. 🙂
Then the fire department came by. Someone had called about a smell of gas; I thought it smelled like the ocean (or, well, a thunderstorm); nobody owned up to having called them; eventually they left.
By that point it was pouring rain, drenching, a dark downpour.
Then it stopped. Now it’s all peaceful out there.
I know this kind of thing isn’t such a big deal in parts of the country where they happen every day, but…here it’s kinda special.