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Sugoku kaminari...
Jul. 28th, 2008 05:15 pmA fairly uneventful day yesterday. I went to practice, which was the last practice, sadly-- we don't have practice next week, since everybody is dealing with exams, although I'll see them again on Thursday for a post-finals mini-party and general hanging out.
After practice I went to the station and picked up a few more things I wanted to get before I went home, as well as a few groceries. It was when I was crossing the little alleyway to get to the grocery store that I realized it was pouring rain. Also, the sky was rather darker than it should be for only six o'clock.
It was, in fact, not just raining but actually storming, and a fairly decent storm at that. Most of the time the "storms" here are really pretty lame (at least when compared to those in Indiana). Tochigi is known for it's thunder, a rarity in the rest of Japan, but often there's just a few rumbles and nothing else. We've been having some lightning in the evening, but mostly just flashes in the clouds that could just as easily be mistaken for fireworks.
And naturally, the day when we had a real storm, I got stuck riding home in it.
It wasn't too bad, though... I got pretty soaked, but, well, that was basically inevitable. I got home without too much fuss besides that, and I was glad I did, because not long after that the real storm started kicking up. Even though I'd been planning on a shower, I ended up going out on my balcony and taking a bunch of pictures, because the sky was just really cool-looking. The clouds had cleared up in the west, so a bit of the sunset was coming through, and then to the south there was a huge blue-purple cloud and a ton of lightning. Several times there were actually waves of lightning, where there would be a flash and then half a dozen lines would crackle through the clouds all at once, across the whole sky. It was really cool.
Best of all, I am pretty damn sure the particularly tall mountain I could see in the distance was Mt. Fuji. I'd been told we could see it on clear days, but I was also told the sky is never that clear, except sometimes in winter.
The pictures are blurry, because my camera hates low-lighting conditions, but you get the idea.
( Lightning flashes across the sky, east to west, do or die )
After practice I went to the station and picked up a few more things I wanted to get before I went home, as well as a few groceries. It was when I was crossing the little alleyway to get to the grocery store that I realized it was pouring rain. Also, the sky was rather darker than it should be for only six o'clock.
It was, in fact, not just raining but actually storming, and a fairly decent storm at that. Most of the time the "storms" here are really pretty lame (at least when compared to those in Indiana). Tochigi is known for it's thunder, a rarity in the rest of Japan, but often there's just a few rumbles and nothing else. We've been having some lightning in the evening, but mostly just flashes in the clouds that could just as easily be mistaken for fireworks.
And naturally, the day when we had a real storm, I got stuck riding home in it.
It wasn't too bad, though... I got pretty soaked, but, well, that was basically inevitable. I got home without too much fuss besides that, and I was glad I did, because not long after that the real storm started kicking up. Even though I'd been planning on a shower, I ended up going out on my balcony and taking a bunch of pictures, because the sky was just really cool-looking. The clouds had cleared up in the west, so a bit of the sunset was coming through, and then to the south there was a huge blue-purple cloud and a ton of lightning. Several times there were actually waves of lightning, where there would be a flash and then half a dozen lines would crackle through the clouds all at once, across the whole sky. It was really cool.
Best of all, I am pretty damn sure the particularly tall mountain I could see in the distance was Mt. Fuji. I'd been told we could see it on clear days, but I was also told the sky is never that clear, except sometimes in winter.
The pictures are blurry, because my camera hates low-lighting conditions, but you get the idea.
( Lightning flashes across the sky, east to west, do or die )
