Rain

[den]

A rather heavy late Autumn shower is falling as I write. I can't see the storm cloud from where I sit; if I look out the office window I can see bright blue sky through the drops. The house has a tiled roof but the patio is covered with colour-bond aluminium sheets. The rain is causing a natural white noise as it hits the metal.

I grew up with this sound. The old farm house has a corrugated iron roof and any rain storm drowned conversation. We had to turn the telly off and just sit and listen. The power supply was so dodgy we were often left in darkness during a blackout. The nearest streetlights were 60km away, and we were 5km from the sealed road.

There is nothing better than laying in a warm bed during a thunder storm with absolutly no noises from human civilisation, electric or mechanical, to disturb the sounds of the wind and the soft shushing of the rain.

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The sky is falling!!!!

[penpouring.livejournal.com]

Funny, I just posted a blabble about thunderstorms a few postings ago....how I get frightened when they really shake up the sky. It made me think; maybe I just don't like being alone during them? Mayhaps it wouldn't seem so bad if I had someone to lay with me and reassure me that it IS NOT the end of the world....?
I still blame my mother..... I wonder if the thunder (down under)sounds different there as opposed to what we hear way up here.....like the toilet water going the opposite way - ?
We live in different worlds and I would love to learn about the differences!

Re: The sky is falling!!!!

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

Thunder here goes

BLAM!

or rumble rumble rumble and I suppose it sounds the same Over There.

Thunder does not worry me. It never has