Thunder And Lightning In January

Thunder And Lightning In January

I was awakened at 1 AM by a large boom and crash. I laid there for a minute, kind of disoriented, this was not one of the normal sounds we hear here. When I heard rain drumming on the roof, I realised that what I had heard was thunder. I got up and went into the livingroom to view the sights. The rain was pouring down, lightning was flashing and thunder was booming. One flash of lightning was so bright it felt like a flash cube going off in my eyes. The thunder boom that followed this one, rattled our windows. This one woke Roy up and he wanted to know what was going on. I stood and watched the rain come down until I started shivering and then climbed back into the nice warm cocoon of our bed. I went back to sleep with the rain drumming on the roof. El Nino is sure doing a job on the weather this winter. This current front going through is supposed to end up giving Albuquerque, New Mexico another foot of snow, as if they haven't had enough this year. Our housesit homeowners had emailed after one of their snowstorms that there was not a shovel left in any of the stores there. This morning it is sunny and although not warm, (it was 14 C. in the apt. this morning), it is nice to see the blue sky and sun again. Ciro came up with the newspaper from Hermosillo yesterday, on the front page was a photo taken in Hermosillo. It was frost and ice all over the plants and looked really pretty if you like that sort of stuff. They had another picture inside the paper that was taken at the golf course. The headline was: Hermosillo Congelado Y Viene Mas ( Hermosillo frozen and more coming). I can't seem to pull up yesterdays edition to get those photos and I don't have a scanner to scan it in from the paper. This is another photo that was in todays paper.

One of the local forums posts a picture almost everyday of something or other in San Carlos. I was surprised to see a photo of our spanish class, as the photo of the day a few days ago.

We got our power bill the other day for the last 2 months, not too tough on the wallet, it is 532 Pesos (about $53.20 dollars). Not too scary; but I do have to say that we are careful with our power consumption, not wanting to be power hogs.