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10/9/99: Boundless DelightA 1:30 a.m. chase to about 30 miles NW of my home yields a dying storm heavy rains with no lightning, save a couple of distant cloud-to-cloud discharges. As I turn around to go back home, the birth of a new storm to the distant south greets my view. Before long, occasional bolts of vivid lightning tear through the sky for earth just ahead of me and skip across clouds. Suddenly, intense rains sweep across my vehicle. Within a few short miles of my home, I penetrate a wall of water so dense that a pulsing sea envelops. Words cannot describe the thrill I feel as sheet upon sheets of wind-whipped rain smashes my windshield with a force like a firehouse, cutting visibility to zero at times, while dazzling flashes scream across the night. "YEEEHAAA!", I scream again and again as vertical strings of splattering rain lit by streetlights march from left to right across my bumper, and water swiftly ponds over the freeway. When I arrive home, the tempest carries forth for a time as trees bend in the blasts. All of this on a 20% chance of rain! At 7:30 a.m. a thundershower births itself into being, as rising sun casts the dark clouds into shades of beautiful rouge and purplish. Soon all merges into occasional flashes and roars with moderate rains.
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