Earlier my friend Vicky had notified me that there was going to be a thunderstorm hitting Seattle towards the end of the week around Thursday and Friday.  However, it came a day earlier than expected but there wasn’t much rain at all surprisingly, as I was expecting like in most storms.  The cloudy night sky was lit up with bright flashes throughout Wednesday night.  Followed by the loud crashing of thunder.  It became so loud and persistent to the point that it woke me up in the middle of the night, and I have been up ever since (now the sun is coming out).

I went online to see who was still awake, and my friend Jenn Louie was asking me if I knew any musicians regarding a little request she had; describing the thunderstorm using more articulate terms than the simplier terms (which I see no harm in using).  After she decided to settle with words like crescendo and accelerando she went back to sleep leaving me to talk to my friend Ivy who is in China right now.  It was raining in China at that time, so I was telling her about how there were a lot of thunderstorms that have been passing through my city all day and sent a link to her (posted below) that the local news station had recorded.  I could still hear the thunder (and sometimes even FEEL it) and see the flashes of lightning right now (6:30am).  Perhaps this is the “answer” to our many complaints about the rather hot weather that we have been experiencing the past week or so.

http://www.king5.com/video/featured-index.html?nvid=260024

That is only Wednesday afternoon/evening/night.  I have to see how bad it can get when that other thunderstorm swings by King County from the Cougar Mountains (south of the Puget Sound region).  With that said, I shall try to sleep for 90 minutes before heading out to work.