Friday, August 6, 2010

August Storms

It has been a week of sudden downpours - rain pelting windows, sometimes flooding parking lots...














Flower flattening sheets of rain...














Some parts of the city experienced flooding. Trees were struck by lightning...

I'm thankful because...
  • this time our neighborhood escaped. (In 2002, the fringe of a hurricane flooded many basements on our street, wrecking havoc in our lives for about 6 months - until all the repairs were done.)
  • we do need rain for our gardens and grass... (It has been a hot, dry summer.)
  • I wasn't out walking with a sudden storm struck!
Several times we were out driving when storm clouds appeared, rain pelting the windshield so hard we could barely see.














A few minutes later the rain was over... Only puddles remained.

It has been an interesting time for sky-watching...














I chased a red sunset as we sped down the highway, missing some really great pictures...














In that split second between the eye seeing and the finger snapping the shutter ... a building or a wall came between.














But once, driving into a parking lot, after being pelted with rain, I did manage to photograph... a rainbow!

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