We've been hearing thunder here in Silver Lake, Burrell. Not just your imagination.
I couldn't believe it the first twenty times you told us, but it's starting to sink in now.
Riley ,'Lessons'
Natter 58: Let's call Venezuela!
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Sean K - May 22, 2008 3:27:50 pm PDT #8477 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Tamara - May 22, 2008 3:32:45 pm PDT #8478 of 10001
You know, we could experiment and cancel football.
Just got lots of thunder and lightning and rain in Century City. Suns is back out now.
§ ita § - May 22, 2008 3:44:51 pm PDT #8479 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Whoa. I just heard thunder. Am I crazy?
Whoohoo!
Uh, except for the walk to the parking lot for my car.
Let me try that leaving work thing.
Allyson - May 22, 2008 3:45:32 pm PDT #8480 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Lots of thunder here, with a full explanation of the Doppler Effect and approximation of how far away the storm is, judging from the length and loudness of thunder.
Heh. Scientists.
sarameg - May 22, 2008 4:19:41 pm PDT #8481 of 10001
One second is .2 miles! The higher pitch (the crack) reaches you first because of the wavelength! Um. Hi.
As oddly charmed as I was by LA (even the stereotypical overheard of modelish types in a fancy pants place, talking about what their therapists said about their narcissism!) the fact you are surprised by thunderstorms makes me have to cross it off my list of places. As if real estate didn't already.
I need my thunderstorms.
Hil R. - May 22, 2008 4:26:12 pm PDT #8482 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I used to do that all the time as a kid. Sit in the window watching a storm, and count the seconds between the lightning and the thunder to figure out how far away it was.
Jesse - May 22, 2008 4:27:09 pm PDT #8483 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
So of course my neighbor called right after I posted. Man, she's in a rough patch. Unemployed, living with a boyfriend she's not crazy about, trying to figure it all out. But we're totally going to hang out more!
Kat - May 22, 2008 4:46:40 pm PDT #8484 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
I was in Pasadena with the baby and I was like, "Oh look! HAIL!"
sarameg - May 22, 2008 4:46:59 pm PDT #8485 of 10001
I used to do that all the time as a kid. Sit in the window watching a storm, and count the seconds between the lightning and the thunder to figure out how far away it was.
I still do. When it comes to storms, I'm a worshipper. I'm the lunatic on the ridgeline as the storm climbs up the valley, and these days, the lunatic on the balcony when everyone else hides inside and the light and sound crashes down simultaneously. I've been warmed and warned by lightening and I should fear it more than I do. But I don't.
sarameg - May 22, 2008 4:50:50 pm PDT #8486 of 10001
Oh! The night D was born, there was hail, green skies late that night as my SIL went into labor, so much lightning. And tornados in the vicinity. And after he was born, I just kept thinking how perfect weather.
I swear, I wasn't born during a storm. That I know of.