Not a particularly brilliant photo, but in the little plot in front of our house there is this brilliant lime tree, which is big, green and allround gorgeous.
Last night we had the freakiest thunderstorm EVER, I have never before witnessed anything like it. The weatherman had warned us that there was a lot of instability in the air and that the whole situation was very explosive, and for once he was not far wrong.
At around 4 o'clock this morning the sky started to come down I think. For at least half an hour there were continuous flashes and instead of thunderclaps we had one continuous roar. Really weird, I have never heard anything like that before.
And the rain... I am not sure how to describe it, but if you watch movies that were made in the forties, they have dramatic storms like that. You just know that it is done in the studio, but in reality it can look like that.
And then this morning, I woke up to this...
And a bit later, there was this...
Because that was the exciting bit, here gratuitously is another image of that... (there was miraculously no harm done to the car though)
Our back garden is actually ok, as is the front garden, but there is a bit of this...
And I guess if you lived here you would not be too happy, luckily it is a vacant property...
But our neighbour was not that lucky...
These are some branches that came of a tree from a garden behind our houses.This is a real shame, as this tree gave us such a lot of pleasure, I hope it will survive. For now our poor neighbour has a lot of clearing up to do, her garden was really lovely before all this.
I find it incredible that something like this can happen, but it only goes to show, you can never harness nature.
Have a terrific Tuesday all!
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Wat zal je geschrokken zijn :)
Fantastische foto's .
That looks like a rough storm! We had a tornado last summer in our town and I think something like 40 homes were destroyed. Kansas has very powerful storms often. Sometimes it's exciting if you know a storm is coming, the anticipation and all. But then something like a tornado happens and it's not so exciting any more. Just scary. Glad you're safe :)
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ReplyDeleteHier heeft het gisteren ook even lelijk gedaan, maar geen bomen om gelukkig.
Wel veel regen.
Vandaag waait het weer hard,en ze hebben nog van alles voorspelt,afwachten maar.
Fijne woensdagavond.
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