I really enjoy a good rain.
Thunderstorms even more so. It is a reminder to me that so much is beyond my control. It improves my attitude and I even sleep better.
What it does to traffic, on the other hand, not so much.
Friday 09 May 2014
Makes two of us… the smell as the first drops pelt down is just indescribable. A smell of joy here in Africa. ;-)
Rob: I was lucky enough in Zambia- even though it was October- to see a brief but torrential downpour. I loved it. And yes, the smell was spectacular.
if I ever win the lottery, one of the first things I would like to do is see a rainfall on every continent where it rains.
Personally I liked the smell on the island of Kaui in Hawaii. Smelled like fresh flowers.
In the mountains it smelled like pines and I liked that as well.
I think if I won the lottery I would be looking for a south seas island to call home.
Thunder storms here in East Texas last night too. The rain falling in surges of intensity, the lightning so close there’s only a second or two between the flash and thunder and the metal taste in the mouth from bolts seemingly closer than that.
The lights went dim several times, but the local electrical distribution system was up to the challenge, happily. Sitting on the front porch (of an upstairs apartment, no less) watching nature go at it is nice, up to the point the air starts tasting like a microwave shorting out – then it’s nice to watch through the windows from inside the air conditioned house.
Nothing makes you grateful for blessings as much as being inside your warm bed in the pre-dawn during a heavy rain in cold weather.
Monsoons… You will NEVER see heavy rain until you are in a monsoon… But rain on a tin roof? I’ll be asleep in five minutes…
NFO: If you like rain on iron roofs you ought to go read this, which I wrote some time back.