weather electrical storm
Jul. 27th, 2006 07:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lobelia321I'm writing this in Word for later posting as I've unplugged my modem to protect myself from electrical zappage.
The storm is raging now. The sky is a muddy white, strangely luminous. Big flashes of white light up across it (what in German is called Wetterleuchten). Cold air blows through the half-shut windows. Thick ropes of water fall from the roof gutters. The windows are pockmarked with rainddrops. There is an overall whooshing sound, the sound of heavy rain streaming down. Some tiny drops hit me as I type but I cannot bear to shut the windows completely; the change in climate is too welcome.
The light is yellow and soupy. All contours are blurred by a haze of rain. There is a loud drumming noise of rain hitting roof tiles.
Whoops, I've had to shut the window. I just realised that my chapter outline (handwritten in biro) has completely dissolved.
Ooh, just now a very loud thunderclap cracked to the left of us. It is a dry, explosive sound, like an amplified fart. This is followed by distant rumbling.
ETA: There was a spectacular crack, and then my computer went haywire. I was in the process of typing the word 'text', and suddenly the iMac, of its own accord and in ghostly fashion, started typing tttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt
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and it just continued to do this before my eyes, filling page after page of my Word document while I frantically hit the 'escape' key and the 'power off' key and finally pulled the plug out of its socket.
Subsequently, I discovered that I had unplugged the modem but not the wireless airport; my downstairs laptop was still connected to the internet although that shouldn't be happening, should it? How could the airport be connected when the modem was not, as the airport itself is connected to the modem? But maybe it's enough to have the computer simply on, even if not wired up, because after all, we have overland electricity cables outside our house. I am puzzled and impressed by the Power of Teh Electrical Storm.
I recovered my document, minus a paragraph, but phew. Next time I will turn everything totally OFF.
Now the air has a bite in it. I am wearing a summer cardie for the first time in weeks!
The storm is raging now. The sky is a muddy white, strangely luminous. Big flashes of white light up across it (what in German is called Wetterleuchten). Cold air blows through the half-shut windows. Thick ropes of water fall from the roof gutters. The windows are pockmarked with rainddrops. There is an overall whooshing sound, the sound of heavy rain streaming down. Some tiny drops hit me as I type but I cannot bear to shut the windows completely; the change in climate is too welcome.
The light is yellow and soupy. All contours are blurred by a haze of rain. There is a loud drumming noise of rain hitting roof tiles.
Whoops, I've had to shut the window. I just realised that my chapter outline (handwritten in biro) has completely dissolved.
Ooh, just now a very loud thunderclap cracked to the left of us. It is a dry, explosive sound, like an amplified fart. This is followed by distant rumbling.
ETA: There was a spectacular crack, and then my computer went haywire. I was in the process of typing the word 'text', and suddenly the iMac, of its own accord and in ghostly fashion, started typing tttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt
ttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt
ttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt
ttttttt
and it just continued to do this before my eyes, filling page after page of my Word document while I frantically hit the 'escape' key and the 'power off' key and finally pulled the plug out of its socket.
Subsequently, I discovered that I had unplugged the modem but not the wireless airport; my downstairs laptop was still connected to the internet although that shouldn't be happening, should it? How could the airport be connected when the modem was not, as the airport itself is connected to the modem? But maybe it's enough to have the computer simply on, even if not wired up, because after all, we have overland electricity cables outside our house. I am puzzled and impressed by the Power of Teh Electrical Storm.
I recovered my document, minus a paragraph, but phew. Next time I will turn everything totally OFF.
Now the air has a bite in it. I am wearing a summer cardie for the first time in weeks!