AMoB Part 21: Thunderstorms
Jul. 21st, 2008 11:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
starielYeah, I know, Boston doesn't have a monopoly on thunderstorms. However, since I decided to move it seems that Thor has decided to take pity on me and come to Boston for a thunder-filled vacation so I can enjoy one my #1 type of weather all the time. The thunderstorms here are very different from the ones in Seattle - it's bolt lightning instead of sheet lightning and they come on and then leave very quickly, usually accompanied by pouring rain.
Thunderstorms are also very hard to take pictures of. Yesterday I was headed out to Allston to meet![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
kale_eater when it started raining hard:
That's the blue sky through the window of the T. Then our train stopped due to "power problems" and we all had to get off. And the sky went dark:
The thunderstorm was right overhead and quite impressive, even though I didn't manage to get any pictures. I should have taken a video so you could at least hear the thunder!
I found out much later that the "power problems" may have been due to lightning that struck the train power lines up the street a ways, although that also might have been after our train stopped as I did still see trains running the other way after ours was stopped and the thunderstorm seemed to be moving towards the place where the lightning struck, not coming from there.
In any case it was pretty impressive.
Thunderstorms are also very hard to take pictures of. Yesterday I was headed out to Allston to meet
kale_eater when it started raining hard:That's the blue sky through the window of the T. Then our train stopped due to "power problems" and we all had to get off. And the sky went dark:
The thunderstorm was right overhead and quite impressive, even though I didn't manage to get any pictures. I should have taken a video so you could at least hear the thunder!
I found out much later that the "power problems" may have been due to lightning that struck the train power lines up the street a ways, although that also might have been after our train stopped as I did still see trains running the other way after ours was stopped and the thunderstorm seemed to be moving towards the place where the lightning struck, not coming from there.
In any case it was pretty impressive.
