And the thunder rolls

Home from Dallas!! Did you get thunderstorms? I keep waiting but I am either sleeping through them or they are passing southern NH by.

great job. I really do hate thunderstorms in the middle of the night,but they do not bother me half as much during the day.

Leah -

Nice Haiku! By the title, I thought that you might have written about a Harley adventure. LIttle did I know that it would be about 2 of my favorite subjects - thunder and lightning!

I think every time I have driven through New Mexico, I have hit those storms. I sleep through them with no effort, here!

David,
By any chance did you notice I got the title drawn from a Garth Brooks song. :)

I love summer storms.

Yep, Linda, I just got home and I'm catching up on e-mail and digging hard into the jet lag. It was an amazing storm as I was 34 flights up and I could see for miles. Just me, my little arm chair, and the 3am Texas skyline.

Aileen,
I've never been to NM, but I want to go wicked bad. Whoops, I've reverted to talking like a Bostonian the minute the cowboy boots came off (kidding, I did not wear boots but I wore my fave necklace (Hi David) with the boot--complete with a little spur. More folks in the Southwest noticed the little boot than anything else, it was a huge hit and I made many contacts because it got noticed and admired. And, for my friend I got her the book Don't squat with your spurs on

Sheryl,
Yep, I love summer storms but this one bothered me as I was out of my comfort zone trying to catch some shut eye at 3am on my 34th floor hotel room (great view, but I'm not one for sleeping in a skyscaper...it feels weird when I can't feel the soil beneath my feet, you know?)

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I could not help posting the lyrics, as me and my husband were singing this down stairs complete with the guitar bits:
It's off the No Fences album.

The Thunder Rolls
By Garth Brooks

Three thirty in the morning
Not a soul insight
The city's lookin' like a ghost town
On a moonless summer night
Raindrops on the windshield
There's a storm moving in
He's headin' back from somewhere
That he never should have been
And the thunder rolls
And the thunder rolls

Every light is burnin'
In a house across town
She's pacin' by the telephone
In her faded flannel gown
Askin' for miracle
Hopin' she's not right
Prayin' it's the weather
That's kept him out all night
And the thunder rolls
And the thunder rolls

The thunder rolls
And the lightnin' strikes
Another love grows cold
On a sleepless night
As the storm blows on
Out of control
Deep in her heart
The thunder rolls

She's waitin' by the window
When he pulls into the drive
She rushes out to hold him
Thankful he's alive
But on the wind and rain
A strange new perfume blows
And the lightnin' flashes in her eyes
And he knows that she knows
And the thunder rolls
And the thunder rolls

The thunder rolls

And the lightnin' strikes
Another love grows cold
On a sleepless night
As the storm blows on
Out of control
Deep in her heart
The thunder rolls

She runs back down the hallway
To the bedroom door
She reaches for the pistol
Kept in the dresser drawer
Tells the lady in the mirror
He won't do this again
Cause tonight will be the last time
She'll wonder where he's been