So I start seeing these flashes of light out of the corner of my eye at work. I look up and nothing's there. This happens a few times. Then I hear this rumble that I thought at first was a truck on the freeway nearby. And the roof starts making a funny pattering noise.
Even I can take a hint after enough clues.
So I go outside. *FLASH!* Blinding lightning arcs across the sky! *RRrRrRRRrRrrrumble!* Thunder follows! Rain spatters down from the skies in huge wet warm glops!
This simple thing amazes me no end. I wasn't expecting rain for another month. I almost never see real lightning storms here! When it rains here it's almost always cold drizzles without excitement. But this... this is a storm like I used to grow up with in the desert!
When I got home, my housemates and I sat out just inside the door of our garage for an hour, watching lightning cascade across the sky and backlight the hills.
I love thunderstorms.
Even I can take a hint after enough clues.
So I go outside. *FLASH!* Blinding lightning arcs across the sky! *RRrRrRRRrRrrrumble!* Thunder follows! Rain spatters down from the skies in huge wet warm glops!
This simple thing amazes me no end. I wasn't expecting rain for another month. I almost never see real lightning storms here! When it rains here it's almost always cold drizzles without excitement. But this... this is a storm like I used to grow up with in the desert!
When I got home, my housemates and I sat out just inside the door of our garage for an hour, watching lightning cascade across the sky and backlight the hills.
I love thunderstorms.
- Current Mood:
enthralled
- Current Music:Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
Profile
revar- Revar Desmera
- The Belfry Webworks
Page Summary
Comments
- 17 Oct 2011, 19:18Clever! ^_^
- 7 Oct 2011, 08:38Was each link made from two pieces, or was there fill material inside that you removed? I'm having trouble seeing how to print these in a makerbot-compatible way (though I could just be overlooking…
- 5 Oct 2011, 22:40Nah. It'd just take a dissolvable support material and higher resolution. There are commercial 3d printers out there that can print ball bearing assemblies in one pass, fully assembled.
- 5 Oct 2011, 18:46Nice! ^_^ I was going to be flabbergasted if you were actually able to print it as a unit, but I guess that would take antigravity.
- 5 Oct 2011, 18:19I printed each piece individually and assembled them after some cleanup. I did print four segments at a time, though, unattached, in a 2x2 grid.
Comments
Here on the wetside, south end of Puget Sound, we're at sea level, and the temperature is pretty stably that of the sea, so... no lightning. LOTS of rain, since it's a temperate rainforest. Although one night during a new moon, I had the pleasure of seeing the entire region's power go down in an intense windstorm, and the violet flash of transformers overloading was all the light there was to see by.