Comments on: Midnight storm clouds dripping silver

By: texasblu

texasblu — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 22:51:23 +0000

Ahhhh… Texas weather. I miss the storms, but not the sleepless nights. I love, LOVE your post title – gives me an idea for a poem. Mind if I use it?

By: Painted Maypole

Painted Maypole — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 06:11:28 +0000

interesting post.

when we had evacuated to Tenessee before Katrina we were watching the weather channel, and I kept saying “That moron is standing at the bridge. Doesn’t he know that he’s in a mandatory evacuation zone? Get out, you idiot!” Then he moved just north of the line of mandatory evacuation and I was saying “That’s the home depot where we were just yesterday trying to buy a generator. Dude. They are out of supplies. LEAVE NOW!”

By: Joyce T.

Joyce T. — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 05:45:07 +0000

What a time you all had. How are you doing now?

Here in the Pacific Northwest we often can have day after day after day of drizzle. Dramatic storms are few and far between. The rare thunder and lightening storm is relished by the children (but not by our dog, who is terrified of the noise).

By: Susan Helene Gottfried

Susan Helene Gottfried — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 00:58:11 +0000

I swear, I am going to make some paint-can ice cream and hand-deliver it to my local weather crew. They are VERY different, in a very good way.

Glad you guys are okay. Is everyone else that you know?

By: henitsirk

henitsirk — Sat, 28 Jun 2008 00:43:54 +0000

I’ve been loving the intense thunderstorms over the last few weeks here in NY, but I could do without tornadoes. Especially because our basement is damp and full of boxes

By: OneMoreBeliever (aka littlewing)

OneMoreBeliever (aka littlewing) — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 23:39:37 +0000

i use to live in texas.. it is exactly how you say… my mother would call us all as soon as the bipbip would come on the tv.. wake us up and demand we get outta bed and come over to her house… bless her heart the tornadoes really frightened her… it was most enjoyable how you brought in the closeness of family.. thoughts of how other people are doing.. exhausting night but we were all together… thank you

By: Lilibeth

Lilibeth — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 20:18:00 +0000

I can well identify…we have those storms, and those weathermen. I think they are just showing off for the large, captive audiences. Ah well. Our TV is in the basement. Usually someone calls us and we go down there to curl up on the one old couch next to the camping equipment. We watch all the excitement and then go back to bed. Now when one really struck here…we were all out in it. I was running to get my son off the football field and ended up in the school basement with the team. My husband and daughter were on the way home, saw the tornado drop, turned the car around and outran it. Then they went into the city to pick up the pieces. Someday I’ll blog about it.

By: danni

danni — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 17:00:38 +0000

i am a real bag of nerves when we get these horrendous storms, yet somehow i can’t stop myself from watching every flash and cringing at every rumble and crash – sort of like not being able to take your eyes off a snake even though you’re terrified of them — this blog paints the peaceful calm of a family unit in the centre of the storm beautifully — wonderfully shared!!!

By: Heather

Heather — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 16:44:50 +0000

I can certainly relate to this!

I’ve wondered some of the same things about the meterologists around here. They seem to get so worked up at every storm though, it’s hard to know when it really is bad or when they’re just excited to be in the spotlight.

By: devil mood

devil mood — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:53:17 +0000

Since we don’t have this kind of heavy storm with tornadoes and such over here, I wonder if portuguese weathermen are doomed to never having their big day…
I hope there wasn’t much damage around you. It must be scary knowing what kind of damage those winds and rain can do, but that calmness you mentioned has a special feeling to it, I’m sure.