santiago is on my lap looking apprehensively out the window as the sky keeps crashing at us. we are having a "severe" thunderstorm with lots of lightning and I've already unplugged my laptop and hope that the battery holds out for the next half hour or so.

this is the most thunder I've heard in a long time. interestingly I don't seem to be panicking yet although I suspect if it went on for a while I might start getting edgy. I've had a phobia of thunderstorms for as long as I can remember, growing up in georgia where you get them all the damned time.

well in the space of thinking of what to say about the thunderstorm it seems to have moved on. it's interesting what passes for severe in this part of the country. guess I'll plug everything back in now.