Have we needed this! It'll knock the pollen and pollution out of the air a bit. But besides that, in my top ten of favorite things is a Spring thunderstorm.
It's cooled off considerably. The air feels fresh, new, charged. Maybe it's that I love opposite forces confronting each other. Two different weather fronts meeting, battling it out. One of my favorite photos ever is an aerial shot of fresh water meeting salt water. Can't remember where it was taken. It's on these frontiers that amazing things can happen.
My mother used to tell me a story about my reaction to my first thunderstorm. We were in Virginia, in Winchester. My father was teaching at Shenandoah before getting hired at UT Austin. There was a massive storm stuck between the Appalachians and the Atlantic. My parents were watching TV in the other room when they realized that with all the crashing thunder, I was probably awake and terrified. When they peeked in on me, I was standing up in my crib, wide-eyed and smiling. I turned to them and whispered in ecstasy, "Rain booms."
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