Lightning and Thunder and Memories

We’re all always watching the weather, especially as the dire promises of climate change become reality. Hurricane season in the Atlantic is swinging into the its most dangerous months after some guy who wants to build gigantic energy sucking and polluting server farms got let loose in the U.S. government and did his best to dismantle departments and the science that help us know more about what’s to come.

I grew up in the hills of central Virginia and survived a few dangerous storms during my childhood. One of those was Hurricane Camille in 1969. I wrote a piece about the night that the storm many had thought already dissipated dumped 25 or so inches of water on our county creating massive flooding and mudslides, and taking lives. That night haunts me to this day.

You can check out the piece on the Medium publication Ellemeno called The Thunder Never Stopped. I hope you go and check it out.

Thanks to David Todd McCarty and NatashaMH for letting me publish the piece on Ellemeno.

You can also find more of my writings on a variety of topics on Medium at this link, including in the publications Ellemeno and Rome. I can also be found on social media under my name as above.