the painfully shy thunderstorm
By Elizabeth
@Poppylicious (11133)
July 18, 2017 6:07pm CST
We have just had a thunderstorm.
It wasn't anything spectacular; more of a damp squib really.
Oh, except for that rather loud BOOM!!! overhead, which caught me unawares when I prematurely thought the storm had travelled onto pastures new.
She snuck in, slowly and quietly. Faint rumbles in the distance and a few bursts of light heralding her arrival. Then came the rain. Lashings and lashings. I stood at the glass doors hoping for a flash of lightning which revealed an evil murderer wielding an axe, but I don't exist in a horror film so I was left mightily disappointed.
Then our painfully shy friend snuck away again, taking her rumbles {It's okay, it's just God moving his furniture around, my Mumma told me when I was little. Like a fool, I believed her,} her rubbish disco lights and her raindrops with her.
And now I can sleep soundly, safe in my cosy dry bed.
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@LadyDuck (457826)
• Switzerland
20 Jul 17
@Poppylicious The sky can be beautiful even when it is dark grey. I am hoping in a little rain, I do not want to go out and water the garden.
@Poppylicious (11133)
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20 Jul 17
Thank you, the photo is from last year. The sky was just depressingly grey when the storm came along!
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@TiarasOceanView (70035)
• United States
18 Jul 17
Beautiful the way you had described this storm. Photo is lovely..bless Mumma too 
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@Poppylicious (11133)
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20 Jul 17
I have always been far more wary of thunder than lightning, even after I realised that it was the lightning which could cause the damage. Very bizarre.
