Colorado Springs has a lot of storms. According to Wikipedia (the source of all knowledge) Colorado Springs has one of the highest occurrences of lightening strikes in the United States. I think that's pretty cool.
Most afternoons the clouds roll in between three and four and hang around for a few hours, sometimes producing storms and always producing fun cloud formations that I love to watch mix and mingle as they drift through the hills and then billow out across the plains.
I'm having trouble sleeping tonight. Apparently so is the sky. One storm keeps drifting in after another, with rain pounding down and thunder crashing each time I begin to doze off. About half an hour ago, the third big storm of the night crashed open above our townhouse, letting lose droves of rain that created pools on the window sills. I sat up in bed to watch the lightening when the sky flashed neon white, thunder crashed, a car alarm exploded into shrieks and a picture jumped off my wall onto the fan I had moved off my window sill onto the floor next to my bed.
I didn't feel at all sleepy after that.
After my heart rate slowed, I noticed a firetruck turn quietly into our drive and disappear behind the rows of houses. It just left, just as silently as it came. The storm seems to be over. Maybe I'll be able to fall asleep now—before another storm comes along.
3 months ago
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I want storms like that to come through town every afternoon. We have times that we have lots of storms, but every afternoon?? That's amazing!
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