boom
August 30th, 2007, 11:24 am
I woke up at three in the morning feeling awful. I think my spaghetti dinner hadn’t agreed with me or something, because the room was spinning.
Two minutes later the lightning starts.
We had just endured the hottest day of the year, and I’d already read the NWS weather statement which warned that there was going to be a heat spell lasting through the weekend which, worst of all, was going to “feature” very high nighttime lows (I totally hate that).
I trudge into my bathroom to wash my face, and then the first boom hits. And it’s frickin’ huge. I pause, wondering how the hell I am standing and listening to thunder following a day without a single cloud in the sky.
Then the big one happened. You know, the type of lightning where the thunder is absolutely simultaneous with the flash. It was so loud and so strong that I wondered for a moment if it had actually struck the house (fortunately, it hadn’t).
And then it rained.
In August, in Los Angeles, after the hottest day of the year.
Okay, so it was only for two minutes, but still. Freaky, man.
This morning it’s hot as hell again, and there’s not a cloud in the sky. But there is this odd sensation of humidity, like after a rain in the tropics.
I’m dreaming of the cool autumn…