As we continued on across the plains, we encountered this. It was so big and a little bit scary. I worried that the car-top carrier would not survive it, so we found ourselves an overpass and parked under it while the storm moved through. I remember a lot of lightning and thunder. Mighty impressive.
We think this was somewhere in Nebraska. Digitized color print, August 1986.
I forgot to mention... the grape harvest has been underway for about a week now. The younger vines are being harvested by hand and the older grapes are getting machine-harvested. Soon the vineyards' leaves will don their autumn colors. And we've still got nearly three weeks until the equinox.
Wow! Driving through tornado alley with a sky like that would make me nervous.
ReplyDeleteI missed yesterday's post -- I do remember Sinclair (with those kinds of prices)... and the blow-up dino that Mitchell had ;)
ReplyDeleteI like watching storms move in, but not when I'm driving. Is the harvest early?
ReplyDeletemitch, we were very nervous, or at least I was.
ReplyDeletejudy, :)
evelyn, the harvest seems early, but I'm not exactly sure if it is in our area. There seems to be a lot of hand harvesting going on out there.