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Article: IN A FLASH, LIGHTNING MEMORIES ARE BACK.(Lifestyle)(Column)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
- Article date:
- July 27, 1999
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In gentle evening rains, the kind you don't mind walking in if you're with the right person, the fireflies are still out. And you can smell many of the nearby flowers and shrubs.
But in real thunderstorms, you can smell electricity, or maybe it's ozone created by all that excess electricity. Sometimes the hair on my neck would go straight when lightning hit a big catalpa tree just down the block or a utility pole in the alley. Maybe it was the electricity; maybe it just scared the hell out of me.
Gentle rain was when your mother said through the front-porch screens: ``It's starting to rain now, so you kids finish that game and get inside.''
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