So first off, let me just say that I absolutely LOVE Virgin America. Thanks to their plug in every seat I’m able to putz around on my computer and even get work don on this near 6 hour flight back home. Most importantly this extra juice is allowing me to write while in mid-flight. Generally I’d not do something that is so “YAY 1990’s technology–look and me on a plane with a computer!”, but I couldn’t help myself. Why you might ask? Well because between putting together some slides and turning the Candy Mountain Candy Cave song into a ringtone, I turned to the starboard side of the plane to glimpse one of the most impressive displays of lightning I’ve ever seen.
It’s been about 10 minutes since I first saw it and its still rolling across the horizon below me. Now I’ve seen some pretty impressive thunderstorms before, but the constant bolts arching between ground and cloud below are literally constant—yes, I mean that in the true sense of the word. At any given moment, somewhere in the sky there is a patch of searing white light. Occasionally I’m even lucky enough to glimpse the shape of the bolt beneath the clouds. Also thanks to Virgin I know I’m precisely on the border of Kentucky and Tennessee—yay for GPS. If I had a camera I’d take some shots of this because it’s absolutely awe-inspiring. What I wouldn’t do to be down there with the pounding rain and whistling wind, lightning striking all around me and thunder booming overhead. As you might have guessed I’ve been deprived of my thunderstorms lately.
The constant speed of these strikes actually is reminding me of how movies portray WWII scenes of the Battle of Britain at night, AA gun lightening up every corner of the sky. My only other point of reference could provide would have to be a bad sci-fi movie starring a grumpy Thor. Anyhow I’m going to stop typing and get back to watching. Ciao.
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