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Snow and Thunder. [1]

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Date: 2022-12-13  

Welcome to the Street Prophets Coffee Hour.

I've experienced some memorable weather phenomena in my life; a water funnel off the coast of San Diego, hailstones the size of golf balls in Oregon. Beautiful if short-lived snow in Phoenix. A monsoon microburst, a pink rainbow, and subzero temperatures here in the Verde Valley.

Me, bundled up for the cold.

Today (Monday, December 12) we were treated to something I'd heard about but never saw before. A thunderstorm with snow.

I had hoped to capture a flash of lightning but that didn't happen.

It was so weird. Everyone who lives where summer storms bring lightning and thunder is well acquainted with the noise and light show. But it's really different in a snow storm. The lightning is barely visible, and the thunder oddly muffled. It's also really cold. I'm probably not describing it very well; it's hard to find words for such a strange experience. It was both unnerving and exciting. It's something I had a hard time believing was even real until I saw it for myself. Of course I went outside and stood there in it.

A lot of things are like that I've found. You can read and hear about something, imagine what it's like... but not be able to fully grasp it until you are standing there in the middle of it all yourself. Getting snow in your eyes and hair, hands numb with cold. Surrounded and overwhelmed by something much bigger and more powerful than yourself. And once it has washed over you, left you shivering and wondering about what you just saw, what you heard. What the hell happened? How the hell did it happen? And realizing that it might be something you'll never fully understand.

As above, so below.

Snow in Sedona a few weeks ago.

It seems like the biggest, loudest, strangest circumstances are just impossible to entirely get a grasp on. And perhaps always will be. For all that I am inescapably and inextricably part of it, it's beyond my ability to control. It's a hard thing to have to accept.

Thank you for reading. This is an open thread, all topics are welcome.

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