A Storm Cloud Gathers...
What strange weather we have been having. Extremely hot, especially in the south, and thank heavens we have an air conditioning unit in the bedroom, which means we can at least sleep at night; during the day, it has been quite stifling.
Added to which, the dreadful news of extreme rainfall in Germany, resulting in terrible floods, showed so clearly the devastation wreaked by nature; there has been much loss of life, homes swept away, and streets turned into rivers.
We have dear friends in Germany, and happily they are all safe and well, but they have endured some anxious and frightening times. Now the clean-up has begun, but it must be heart-breaking for so many people who have lost everything, and have to start again.
In America and Canada, too, there has been appalling heat, with people experiencing what has been called a "heat dome," and enduring it as best they can.
It shows how fragile we humans are, when it comes to surviving extreme temperatures; we're happiest existing in a fairly narrow temperate range!
A couple of days ago, we were warned of thunderstorms and rain, but for most of the day, the sky remained cloudless, until we went outside and looked up: and there was a cloud on high, looking for all the world like something out of the film, Independence Day. Apart from three or four sprinkles of rain, and a few rumbles of thunder, that particular episode passed us by.
A scene to inspire the makers of Independence Day?
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