Friday afternoon we had a beautiful summer thunderstorm pass over. It would have been a great time to stay tucked in the house and watch the rain, except that I had a letter that I wanted to get to the post office before the end of the day. So I loaded the kids into the car as the thunder howled, the skies let loose, and the questions began…
“Mom, can the car be struck by lighting?”
“I guess so, but I think the rubber tires provide some shielding and the metal body of the car sends the lightning toward the ground. I think we are pretty safe..”
“Mom, can you have lightning without thunder?”
“No, the answer to that is definitely, no.”
“Mom, statistically what are the chances we get home alive?”
“I think the odds of being struck by lighting are about 350,000 to 1.”
“Is that good?”
“Yes, those are good odds, I think we’ll be fine.”
“Would we be safer in a building?”
“Depends, which building.”
“Why?”
“Because, the Empire State Building gets hit about two dozen times per year.”
“Do a lot of people die?”
“I don’t think so.”
“Why”
“Because, they probably decide a thunderstorm is a good time to go to the post office, so they leave right when it starts.”
“You are so weird Mom.”
Drawings of the Storm…
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- Anna Mae
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- Truman
A poem from Anna Mae…
The Earth
The sun shines
The stars twinkle
The sky is blue
The grass is green
The trees wave in the wind
The flowers show their beautiful petals
The winds blows and
The Earth spins.
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What, doesn’t everyone start their errands when wall clouds appear? Did you do some storm chasing also? C