Showing posts with label lightning. Show all posts
Showing posts with label lightning. Show all posts

Aug 11, 2009

Montana

We are experiencing one of the coolest lightning storms I have ever seen in my life right now. The lightning is striking a few miles off shore, but the storm has been sitting there for about an hour now. And it is constant lightning the likes of which I have never seen before.

Seriously, it looks like a scene out of a war movie where they show the war at night from about a mile away...bombs exploding in the distance. I have the weather station on right now and the dude says that those of us on the North Shore of LI may see an occasional lightning burst. But it has been steady for a long while now. Very fucking cool.

But all I can think about today is Montana. I've always been fascinated by those distant Western states like Montana and Wyoming. I don't know why. The wide open spaces, maybe? The solitude? I guess my fascination is similar to Vasili's from The Hunt for Red October. I just hope my last words aren't "I would have like to have seen...Montana", like his were.

Then I saw this map and all my dreams of moving to a cabin somewhere in Montana magically went away.

clicky to biggify - Courtesy of Flip Flop Fly Ball


Looks like Montana, specifically Turner, Montana, is about as far away from a major league baseball team as you can get in the Continental US.  Who needs that?

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Note: Remember to play the Bug-Eyed Trivia Challenge every day. Give me a ping, Vasili. One ping only, please.