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Storming

6/15/2014

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 I woke up last night at 3.30 because there was a light flickering. Turned out not to be inside. I thought it must have been a streetlight, but then realised that simply wasn't possible from where the light was coming from. So I got up and proceeded to watch what I think is the most amazing lightshow I've ever seen. There was huge stormheads to the south and out to sea and I can't tell you, can't even come close, how much lightning was filling the sky in the two directions. It genuinely looked mythological - like two gods were hurling lightning bolts at each other. Perhaps the most bizarre thing about this whole show was that there wasn't a rumble of thunder to be heard. Just the wail of the rising wind.

There I was standing on my balcony and I suddenly thought - I can get a better view than this. Well, one thing led to another and the next thing I know I'm walking down out street, phone camera in hand, barefoot and wearing a dressing gown. My journey to get a better vantage point led me to the golf course. That would be the first time I've ever stood on a fairway, barefoot, wearing a dressing gown that trying to blow right off my back (yes, not a pretty sight really) at 3.30 in the morning, wind howling and trying to film an incredible thunderstorm - all in a strange sort of silence that wasn't really silence with the wind blowing - but certainly a sensation that for a while you had stepped outside the ordinary world. The only company a fox that looked liked it couldn't sh!t itself silly anymore that it already had and a bat that basically achieved the same effect on me when it took off from a nearby bush.

The video turned out to not even come close to capturing anything of the grandeur - but the experience of trying to take it, well that was a whole different kettle of awesome.
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