Weather(Len Daniels) Weather

The weather is probably the only thing besides death and taxes that living things on the earth can’t get away from. Thank goodness, it’s always changing because who would want to live on earth if it was always sunny, or hot or snowing all the time. It makes more sense to live with it rather than try to beat it. That is why I personally love a thunderstorm.
I’ll pause in anything I’m doing to go and sit outside, under cover of course, to view this spectacular lightshow. I call it “Natural Fireworks.” The wonder of the streaks of neon light between clouds or from sky to earth, gives me exhilaration that is hard to match. I guess it started when I was a small child living in the city. Whenever we expected a thunderstorm, my brother and I would open the front door and lean on a hassock that my mother would place in the doorway for us. Then we would watch the street become bright whenever the lightning arched across the sky. I always got a thrill from seeing the dark night become daylight for an instant, and the following thunderclap made us laugh. Our dad used to tell us that the angels were lifting weights in the heavens and they occasionally dropped them causing the thunder. He never gave us a plausible explanation about the lightning though. I learned about what causes lightning in my electronics studies later in life.

Occasionally, even now, I’ll just go out and sit on my front porch in the cool night air late at night. I did that the other night, since I wasn’t tired enough to go to bed. The street was deserted and the crickets hadn’t started their sounds yet this spring. The air was very still and the sky was lit by a full moon. It was almost as nice as sitting in a thunderstorm. Now there’s a comparison for you.

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