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It Was a Dark and Stormy Night
Thrifty Words Theme Challenges 100 #8: / 50 #29: Storms
Signs Spring has sprung are all around me as I sit to type this. Purple crocus in the back, yellow daffodils in front, red chested robins, and red-headed woodpeckers, and slightly higher temperatures.
A less pleasant sign of spring is the storms. More specifically tornados.
Here in the Texas Panhandle, aka Tornado Alley, we’ll see several hard-core storms each spring, many of them resulting in tornados. Most of them with lots of lightning and LOUD thunder. Those who enjoy lightning storms would love it here.
We’ve all heard about the big Texas freeze. The cold weather down south was unusual, which made it newsworthy.
What doesn’t usually make the news are storms that only come very close to doing damage, or storms that do a great deal of damage but have no confirmed twister. Everybody wants to see the funnel cloud.
Thinking about wind and lightning and thinking about some of the volatile people who have been in and out of my life inspired today’s challenge. I was composing the challenge in my head yesterday evening when I heard the sirens go off. I glanced at my phone and saw the tornado warning.
