Hey, glad you like the picture, Mary! Actually, I believe this is a supercell thunderstorm, the kind that produces tornades, but unfortunately I can no longer find the source from which I filched it. (Thought it was NOAA's photo library (http://www.photolib.noaa.gov/), but no soap.)
I too would love to get close to a tornado sometime without getting killed, if it could be managed. And yeah, ditto what you say about the paradox of beauty/destructiveness--realizing that was one of the first things that shattered my nascent faith in Nature's Fundamental Wise Beneficence (well, that and the Rube Goldberg-like grotesquerie of the female reproductive system).
Glad you didn't get swept away in the storm, in any event. You might have more fun in Oz, but we need you here--your mission amongst the earth beings is not yet complete.
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Date: 2001-09-25 10:18 am (UTC)I too would love to get close to a tornado sometime without getting killed, if it could be managed. And yeah, ditto what you say about the paradox of beauty/destructiveness--realizing that was one of the first things that shattered my nascent faith in Nature's Fundamental Wise Beneficence (well, that and the Rube Goldberg-like grotesquerie of the female reproductive system).
Glad you didn't get swept away in the storm, in any event. You might have more fun in Oz, but we need you here--your mission amongst the earth beings is not yet complete.
--Kat