I live in central Indiana. It is spring time. There are thunder and lightning storms. Those three facts fit together, naturally. Really, I mean it, nature in the form of these kind of spring storms is something that is natural...if you were raised and/or live where I live.
The storms can be beautiful and terrifying. They can produce big buckets of rain or damaging downpours of hail. They scare my daughter's pet Guinea Pig every time. We have to leave a light on so that Smorz (the pet's name) won't be quite so hyper during all the nature-displays of noise and light.
My airplane-pilot son, while studying meteorology at Purdue University, home on break, said to me (some years ago) as we sat watching TV during a quite noisy and brilliant storm(and I was going over notes for a Good Friday sermon), "Dad, those storms are caused by the warm air that is pushing into the area doing battle with the cold air that has been here all winter...kinda like the forces above (hot air) battling the forces below (cold air) and something pretty violent has got to give." Pretty good theology, I thought. (His observation made it into the sermon.)
However, what bugs me about those storms nowadays is that the electricity gets cut off all too often. And all the digital clocks in the house start flashing 00:00! Resetting those things (we have 4) gets to be a pain...especially trying to get them all to sync-up. With analogue clocks "close" was good enough, but with digital clocks "precise" is what is expected.
Its almost as frustrating as trying to "reset" my life every once in awhile. You know, when the power source gets cut off and you have to deal with everything that has gotten out of whack and needs to be reset.
Yeah, like that.