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19 September 2005

Whoah, whoah! Weird weather! One minute everything is perfectly still and quiet as I was sitting here in the heat with my fan blowing... and the next moment things are banging around on the balcony and outside the building, and all the doors and windows in the apartment are slamming shut. It's twilight here, and the sky is this totally weird illuminated flat grey color... Very strange. Also the lights are flickering from time to time... So I might be losing you here any second. Good thing Greece is totally not a hurricane/tornado zone...

post by: taz at: 12:10 | 13 comments

Wow, sounds tornado-ey to me. If you feel your sinuses drop out of your head, it could be a fast pressure change (the kind that sometimes result in destructive storms). Get somewhere solid.

We had tornados when I lived in Indiana a while back, and they suck. I have no idea about Greece, though. It's probably a harbinger of balmy sunshine and a soothing Mediterranean breeze (one can only hope).

Be careful, taz -- I hope you remain safe and wonderful.

posted by Hugh Janus 19 September | 12:17

Sounds like how I woke up this morning -- ominous darkness approaching from the West, whipping wind, then lots and lots of rain.

posted by me3dia 19 September | 12:22

Here's a pic I took just after posting, though it doesn't at all capture the eery quality of the light then:

≡ Click to see image ≡

Now it's raining torrents, and it's totally weird-weird-weird freaking yellow outside - like an old instamatic photo, but more... much more! This is so strange.

posted by taz 19 September | 12:23

Okay, basically back to storm-normal now; no strange illumination, yellow allgone. Regular (though pretty brilliant) lightning, and darkening all over by the second. It's still raining... but it's not pounding any more. And now it's quite cool. Thanks for sharing my moment, bunnies.

posted by taz 19 September | 12:37

any moment they'll start bursting up out of the earth. let me know if you see tom cruise run by.

posted by quonsar 19 September | 12:44

I might be ready to meet my maker... But Tom Cruise is another story entirely.

posted by taz 19 September | 12:50

Oooh lightning. Yay!

If you meet Tom Cruise, please kick him in the nuts for me. Cheers.

posted by gaspode 19 September | 12:57

And now... It's post-storm, except for increasingly distant lightning... And really, really beautiful. Dark and glittery.

(*pulls on her nutkicking boots*)

posted by taz 19 September | 12:59

taz - sounds like a good ol' fashioned summer thunderstorm. I saw my first one in Massachusettes this summer, and I was as stunned as you were. One minute, 90F and 100% humidity, the next it was stormy, then pleasantly cool, all in half an hour.

posted by muddgirl 19 September | 15:21

Yeah... It turns out that's all it was, albeit a really noisy, busy one there for a short while - but the lighting effects were tres bizarre... Especially the glowing yellow rainstorm. I guess it was just a strange combination of conditions.

posted by taz 19 September | 15:28

Sometimes thick clouds glow because of the angle sunlight or moonlight strikes them?

That question mark represents my complete lack of any real knowledge about this. It's a guess, and not a particularly educated one.

It could also be that the clouds interfered with Greece's laser defense system, and the light and sound show was simply high-tech defenders at work protecting you from space invaders.

That's more like it.

posted by Hugh Janus 19 September | 15:38

Oooh, I believe there should be an "at" at the end of my first sentence.

Hawwwwwww!

posted by Hugh Janus 19 September | 15:50

wow, kewl. I wish I had been at your house taz, all we got over here was a sudden fog that covered the city on a warm night after a coldish day. I like fog tho.

posted by dabitch 19 September | 17:44

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