(INTO THE WOODS AND BEYOND!)
We had quite the lightning show last night, I’m sure many of you experienced the same weather system. The lightning lasted for a few hours which was quite the surprise, we haven’t seen a storm like that in quite a long time.
It was a very good thing that the storm lasted that long because it took me FOREVER to figure out how to set my camera. I haven’t used it in a long time.
A beautiful Florida day decided to get moody late in the afternoon, the clouds marched in.
Right on cue, they spread out and filled the sky.
Rain poured down, and all indications were that it was going to be a “no sunset evening.”
I’m glad I didn’t give up on a sundown show…the clouds couldn’t hold it back and it blasted a beacon of beauty.
I couldn’t resist, just had to add this to the “collection”.
After a day of extremely strong winds and torrential rainfall, the sky had apparently run out of anger.
Having had it’s tantrum, the sky went all sweet and tried to make up for it’s bad temper by puffing up the remaining clouds with gorgeous color.
The sky is very clever, I immediately forgave it and told it how much I adored it.
I’ve never seen the big sycamore at the end of our driveway spotlighted like this before. Normally it’s pitch black along the road…it can creep a person out if the deer are moving through the woods.
At the top of this image you can see that there were clouds in the sky, they covered the moon and then revealed it, time and time again. What you can’t see is that the clouds were screaming across the sky, moving at forty-one miles an hour. The woods were howling and the power was out…where was the light coming from?
The fire truck parked in the middle of the road.
We had been listening to the wind, when almost simultaneously, we heard a loud BOOM and saw a bright white light shoot way into the woods. We also found ourselves sitting in the dark.
Long story short, the branches of this huge tree brushed the power lines across the street and the circuit breakers on a telephone pole popped…or as I called it, “exploded.”
Prior to the fireman and police officers getting here, we grabbed our powerful flashlights and waved them madly whenever we saw headlights come over the hill from either direction.We also made sure we stayed out from under the trees, well I did…hubby needed a lot of vocal encouragement from me to, “MOVE OUT FROM UNDER THE TREES!”
Two cars were very lucky, they came over the hill JUST after the tree came down. A few seconds either way and we could have found a car under the tree when we got to the end of the driveway.
My hat is off to those firemen…they had the road cleared in no time…they cut and then lifted those HUGE sections of tree and then, shouldering their chainsaws, they marched back to their truck and went off to the next rescue.
(My apologies for the grainy images…I used my phone, didn’t have the right setting selected, my hands were freezing…the dog ate my homework.)
A WINDOW INTO THE WOODS 