Summer Storm

6 Kalimat 163 B.E. – July 18, 2006 A.D.

The monsoon season has finally started. The lightning storm last night was beautiful. The streaks of light were clear and bright. The thunder was so loud that it shook my bed and rattled the windows. It was the first storm of the season. It rained, the lightning struck a tree somewhere in town and knocked it down. An empty mobile home was set fire by the lightning. We usually don’t get this type of storm this early in the season, normally August is when the real lightning storms start and we haven’t had a storm like this in Las Vegas in several years.

Yesterday, during the day, there was an excessive heat warning, the temperatures to somewhere between 113 to 115 degrees. Then after dark, it rained with thunder and lightning. Today it’s been cloudy all day, but no rain. Just as well because the parking lot of one of the casinos flooded last night and fire department search and rescue had to retrieve a man from his car. Electricity went out in some parts of town. Quite a storm for the first one of the monsoon season, which means it should be an interesting season.