Thar's A Storm A-Brewin'

[TN_Vixen]

it's crazy here. The sky is blue, black, green and ugly. The wind is whipping around like crazy. All my patio furniture has been tossed around. Looks like we're in for a huge storm. A friend of mine once said that he loved storms. Loved watching the lightening and got a charge out of the whole experience. I'm one of those people who have always disliked big storms. At night as a child I used to lie awake in bed, terrified that a bolt of lightening would rip our house apart. I still don't like them.

 

[Dillinger]

Twas a dark and stormy night...

 

[Mensa]

Loved watching the lightening and got a charge out of the whole experience.

Vixen made a joke!

 

[riff]

Love storms. negative ions in the air are good for me.

 

[Mensa]

Love storms. negative ions in the air are good for me.

As would be shock treatment.

 

[cymbidia]

We don't get storms like that in California. Ever.

I never in my life encountered one until i was an adult and went to Nebraska to visit in-laws. For hours i sat on thier wide, sheltering porch, totally absolutely entranced at the magnificience and glory of my first real thunder and lightning storm.

No wonder the ancients thought the gods were angry when such storms broke out over their heads. No wonder every literate non-monotheistic culture had some kind of Sky God/dess or Thunder God/dess.

Those storms are awesome, in every sense of the word.

I'll trade you my placid, looks-like-another-gorgoeous-mid-70's-CA day, Vix, for your wild-ass storm, if you like.

 

[Wryter47]

Makes lots of O3 (ozone), too, which smells great but I'm not so sure it's good to breathe. Here in Manhattan it's CAVU and going to be 63 or something today. We've just missed an entire winter.

 

[TN_Vixen]

I'll trade you my placid, looks-like-another-gorgoeous-mid-70's-CA day, Vix, for your wild-ass storm, if you like.

I couldn't live somewhere where the weather was constant. Although I will trade off during these crazy storms. We have them quite often here. If you're up in the mountains of TN when it happens, it's unbelievable. You can see the streaks race across the sky...

 

[riff]

As would be shock treatment.

Know where I can get any?

 

[Mensa]

Yesterday, today, tomorrow, no change

We don't get storms like that in California. Ever.

No thunderstorms. No snow. No real change in the seasons.

Why would anyone want to live in California? Boring, boring, boring!!

 

[Mensa]

Know where I can get any?

Wait for a really fantastic thunderstorm, one with lots of lightning.

Find the tallest isolated tree you can, stand under it, and voila!

 

[cymbidia]

I couldn't live somewhere where the weather was constant.
Originally posted by Mensa
No thunderstorms. No snow. No real change in the seasons.
Why would anyone want to live in California? Boring, boring, boring!!

Um. Guys? you're thinking of southern Florida, maybe?

In northern California we definitely have seasons. Three of them. Four by some counts.


1. We're just coming out of Rainy Season now, in fact. During Rainy Season, it, um, rains. Sometimes it rains during the day, even. People sometimes have accidents, too, during the rainy season cuz all the roads are so slick.

2. We have Beach Season, too, which lasts from about April through October, more or less. A lot of the length of Beach Season depends on where you are in California. You remember all those Beach Boys songs? That was for us, darlin's, and our nine month long summer.

3. We have Fire Season, too, the scary one. This goes from July or August (depending on Rainy Season, of course) through October or November, depending on when Rainy Season starts again. This is when y'all send your highly skilled and trained fire fighters our way for a few months of CA-style fires (rugged impenetrable deeply brush filled canyons, dry as the proverbial bone, no fire hydrants, small winding roads, filled with multi-million dollar homes and high-priced doggies that need rescuing).

4. Additionally, all year round is Tourist Season here in the most visited, most admired, most envied state in the country, on the continent, and in, i think, the world.

 

[Ladyhawke]

I'll trade weather with someone..we're having snow, rain and ice..the tree branches are sagging from it. Last night we had a rain/freezing rain thunderstrom..freaky. I love Minnesota....

 

[truegentleman]

I love storms, especialy at night.

I love to sit in a screen porch and watch the fantastic light show put on by nature. It is even better if the porch has a tin top on it, so you can hear the rain hit the roof. There is nothing like the smell after a spring storm, very erotic and exciting.

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

We don't get storms like that in California. Ever.

Tell me about it. Once a year we get a little lightning here in LA, but it's a firecracker compared to the Frankenstein Laboratory light and sound shows we used to get back east. I MISS WEATHER!

 

[tn_8tiv]

Welcome back Vixen. Glad you're posting again.

Stormy days are great if you're snuggling with the one you love. Who can hear the storm above all of the moans and groans of pleasure!

 

[Mensa]

4. Additionally, all year round is Tourist Season here in the most visited, most admired, most envied state in the country, on the continent, and in, i think, the world.

Boy! Talk about living in Fantasyland!

 

[Guest]

Someone beckons the great Storm????

Know where I can get any?

You called........