More Thunder and Lightning...

On the Weather Channel today, they interviewed a woman named Susan Strom- The Lightning Lady. She makes her living shooting photos like these. They say she can smell when a storm is coming and knows where to set up for the best chance at this kind of stuff. Click the image to visit her website.

Lightning and thunder bring God to mind for a lot of people. I suppose it's because of their inimitable power. It might be because of the thunder and lightning atop Mt Sinai when Moses went up to confer with God, in addition to the pillars of fire and cloud that led the Jews through the wilderness. Maybe its the combination of incredible beauty and along with all that power.

God seems to like doing that. Think of killer whales, tigers and leopards, cobras, or black widow spiders. It's like He's telling us, even through nature, things arent always what they seem. Beauty doesnt mean goodness. Most prey animals dont see in color, so the patterns of these animals serve as camoflage, but for those creatures who do, the bright colors get our attention right away and tell us to hoof it before something really dangerous catches up with us.

Mythbusters did a couple of shows using lightning machines. In one episode, they built a little house and strapped a phone to Buster's head to see if lightning could kill someone talking on the phone during a storm. With a machine that can generate bolts of 200,000 volts and some really faulty wiring, they dubbed the experiment plausible. The man who ran the lightning machine said that real lightning can reach over one million volts.

I love Mythbusters. What a great way to make a living. They've done some of the most outrageous stuff I can imagine. I suppose I dont have a favorite episode. The truth is, I'd just like to know how they got so connected. They have ex-FBI guys coming out with superduperexplodingsilverpaintthat'llblowyourpantsoff. And they can blow up cement trucks and safes. I probly couldnt even get a permit to set off an M-80.

I'm not afraid of lighting, but I also dont go out and give it the opportunity to hit me. Understanding the danger and avoiding it is not the same thing as being afraid.

We'll probably find some of Daisy's little turds on the floor in the morning.