I was taking my evening stroll and listening to a lecture on Plato (yeah, geeky teacher here) when I looked up. These clouds you see here were barely visible over the horizon only three minutes before I took the picture.
It was like
Ghost Busters. Then the thunder came and distant lightning. Pretty scary stuff. And suddenly the temperature dropped from about 98 to 80 and the wind picked up, whipping those tall palm trees back and forth menacingly.
It was actually much darker than the pictures look. I went into my room to get the umbrella that Fr. Bo bought for me then went to the kitchen. Finally, about 20 minutes later, it all exploded in a torrential downpour that lasted about 15 minutes. It died in a whimper and then sprinkled lightly for about a half hour.
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