Big badda-boom!

[scarlettina]

We don't get big thunderstorms in Seattle. It rains here, yes, but usually as an endless drizzle (and we haven't even had much of that this year). Big thunderstorms are one of the things I miss most about living in New York. There's nothing so dramatic, so cathartic, as the flash and dazzle of lightning and the basso rumble of thunder.

Every now and then, though, the Seattle skies get heavy and gray, dark in a way that's more ominous than our usual white sky. It's at those times, like today—in fact, only five minutes or so ago—that they let loose a rolling growl that literally shakes buildings. And, as happened just now, from cubicle to cubicle you'll hear people say "Woooow."

(And then they'll scramble to save their documents....)

Comments

Thud!

[ladyjestocost.livejournal.com]

Heard that one, did you? So did the Cat, who has complained to management about it. What she thinks I'm going to do, I don't know.

Being Seattle, it's 20 minutes later and the sun is shining brightly, at least here in West Seattle. But I'm not fooled; I want to mow the lawn but I know if I poke my nose outsite, it'll only start raining again.

Re: Thud!

[scarlettina.livejournal.com]

Yup, as I said: it shook the building. ::grin:: It's sunny now. I hope it stays relatively dry and clear this evening!

[lagilman]

*sulk* Want thunderstorm. Want thunderstorm NOW!

*stares at sky, arms crossed and toe taping*

[scarlettina.livejournal.com]

::chuckle::

[markbourne.livejournal.com]

Down here in Portland we just had a freak rainburst too. No thunder that I heard, but it would have fit right in. And that's when I noticed that we have a plugged gutter on the house. Dang.

[nwhepcat.livejournal.com]

And I must tell you, I found most New York thunderstorms to be a mere popcorn fart by comparison to a good midwestern one. It was one of my profound disappointments of the last 24 years or so that most t'storms, NY and Idaho, were over before they got rolling.

Glad you got a good light show!

[eyemage.livejournal.com]

3 booms and a flash do not make a thunderstorm in my frame of reference...

not even hail...ya gotta have hail for a thunderstorm....jeesh.

and...

who wouldnt want a waterspout in puget sound?

gotta import a better class of weather...

[scarlettina.livejournal.com]

3 booms and a flash do not make a thunderstorm in my frame of reference...

Hmmmm.... I merely said that every now and then the sky lets loose a big, edifice-shaking boom! and that I missed thunderstorms. Everyone else on my list went right to "thunderstorm" to describe yesterday afternoon's incident. On my rain scale, yesteday afternoon was unusual for Seattle, but nothing like the downpours we got back east.

Gotta import a better class of weather...

Well, I'd agree with you there, no question.

And ... um ... welcome to my journal but ... who?

[eyemage.livejournal.com]

sorry for being overly critical...i was perturbed at the news build up of the storm yesterday...with no pay off in my perspective...

as to who...just another seattlite...
fan of foglio
reader of grubb street
and
one who waits for volcanoes

now those will go boom!

[scarlettina.livejournal.com]

Heh. Well, welcome, curious stranger!

one who waits for volcanoes

Now I have this image of a person sitting in a pale, plain waiting room. Across the room is a door with a plaque on it that says "Volcanoes." This person looks...nervous.

[varina8.livejournal.com]

I'm less nostalgic for thunderstorms since the heavens opened up on me halfway back to my office. The same place where I left my umbrella and raincoat, of course.

[scarlettina.livejournal.com]

Oh dear. Poor, soaked varina8!