Weather stories

It was a Sunday and my friend Chrissie was going to come to my house in the country to plant some trees and have a barbecue. The weather was absolutely lovely until about 12 noon. A strong wind came up which brought the message of a thunderstorm coming up. One hour later the sky was dark with clouds and we heard a rumbling coming closer and closer. We have a huge pylon running across our land just 20 metres away from the house that started to make funny noises as the air got dense with electricity.

Chrissie and I were standing in the door watching the spectacle when suddenly the clouds broke open and released tons of water. Chrissie got so overwhelmed with this weather that she started jumping around singing. She was drenched within seconds, she danced and danced not realizing the danger she was in. With a deafening noise a lightning hit the pylon, rushed down the sides and split the ground open. Millions of sparks rained down to the earth. Chrissie screamed with fear and ran in panic towards the door. Her legs were trembling for hours as we sat in candlelight waiting for it to be over.

Around 1999
Submitted online by Katharina Sucker, January 17, 2004