Great Barrington – 4 p.m. It isn’t over yet – this procession of thunderstorms. One tremendous bolt of lightning with an instant crack of thunder just struck near my house on Grove Street. They say there’s more acomin’, like wild horses fleeing an even bigger storm, Hurricane Arthur, taking a bead on the East Coast.
4:27 p.m. The computer, phone and iPad all chime up with another severe weather warning. More storms.
I have electricity. The western side of Main Street does not. At least, not yet.
As the rain and wind are raging, the Edge received two photos of damage. Ed Abrahams emailed in a photo of a utility line sprawled across Pleasant Street. Then Dan Bellow caught an employee from Haupt Tree service inspecting a tree that had fallen on a car in front of the Congregational Church on Main Street.
That’s the same incident I had sent by Twitter to the Edge’s This Just In.
While seeking shelter from the storm in front of Carr’s Hardware so that I could complete my transmission, I was joined by Erik Bruun.
“I guess the Main Street Reconstruction Project has begun,” he quipped. “One tree at a time.”
But I do have to say that I enjoy a rousing thunderstorm. It’s invigorating.
Reminds me of growing up in Ohio, where my family lived in “Tornado Alley.” My younger sister and I – we were eight and 10 years old about that time – would camp ourselves on the back screen porch to watch the tumult. Nothing like a thunderstorm for a good show.
Keep an eye on the Edge for further storm updates, if needed.
