When I was a little boy, Hurricane Agnes blew through Virginia causing massive flooding and we lost our home. I remember bits and pieces of the event (I was like 4 years old), mainly scrambling for higher ground. When I was a teenager, we were on a cross country trip and driving through Oklahoma when a small tornado dropped out of the sky on top of our car. The wind, chunks of hail, flying debris, etc… scared us stiff.<\/p>\n
I then graduated from High school, Married, and took a job in California. It was there that Wendy & I experienced our first earthquake. It was the Northridge “Quake” of 1992 and it killed 60 people, injured another 7,000 and destroyed over 20,000 homes. Another event California treated me to that year was the Rodney King Riots which wasn’t very fun at all. I won’t even go into the Mud Slides, or Wild Fires that were ever present. Nor will I even talk about being around for the “Birth” of high speed police pursuits televised nightly at the dinner table.<\/p>\n
Now that I’ve made it back to the East Coast, Mother Nature has been much nicer to me. Tonight, something happened here on my little mountain that I’ve only had the opportunity to witness on one other occasion during my lifetime. There was Thunder-Snow. Huh? What the heck is Thunder Snow you ask? It was snowing outside and there was also lightning and thunder. It’s a very strange phenomenon and not very common but I must say the effect is beautiful, especially at night when a lightning bolt streaks across the sky and illuminates against the falling snow. The sound of the thunder then reverberates off the snow causing a very low rumble that shakes the house.<\/p>\n
You don’t believe me? Google it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
When I was a little boy, Hurricane Agnes blew through Virginia causing massive flooding and we lost our home. I remember bits and pieces of the event (I was like 4 years old), mainly scrambling for higher ground. When I … Continue reading