No fireworks..... Just a storm.....

Happy Independence Day Everyone! 
My day was fine! Ya wanna know something? Even though it is a holiday, I still had schoolwork! ahhhh the joys of doing school over the summer because you can {or because you're mom says you can}!
Today was a beautiful over here in Virginia! My family went to the beach before dinner while i stayed home to do Biology! They came home a few hours later, said they had a great time and layed their wet towels against the back end of my dad's truck to dry. The rest of the day went on quietly, mom in the kitchen fixing dinner, dad outside grilling us some all American hamburgers and hot dogs and my 2 older siblings doing whatever they do when they are bored, and then dinner was ready!

Around 7:00/7:30p.m., we were supposed to be looking on the computer for a good place to watch the fireworks, but instead we were all huddled around the front glass door looking out into the downpour that we see around us. The American and navy flag on the flag pole in our front lawn flowing violently in the wind, lightning flashing around us.... does this mean no more fireworks? i don't know........

By 8 we all got over the excitement of the rain and soon went to doing our own thing...... I was in my room which faces the street when I saw this big flash of light outside my window and this loud roar of thunder so loud it shook the house, especially my room. {i am not kidding! It freaked me out!}I ran down to my dad in the living room to ask him if he felt that! {he did} we quickly went back to the glass door to see if any of the electrical cables had been snapped. Have you ever heard of that lightning trick? Where right after you see the lightning you count 1 one-thousand, 2 one-thousand, 3 one-thousand and so on... till you hear the thunder? {because light travels faster than sound} Well if you get to 1 one-thousand, the lightning is supposed to be in a one mile radius from where you are because the light and sound did not have to travel very far for you to hear it. If you heard the sound after 2 one-thousand, its in a two mile radius and so on and so on. {or so I'm told.} We did not even finish our one one-thousand before we heard the thunder so it should be close! {also considering how bright the lightning was and how loud the thunder was} I'm surprised the power has not gone out yet! My neighbor hood is very famous for losing power and not getting it back for a day or two! { our neighbor's said they had gone 2 weeks w/o power a couple years ago} It stopped raining for a bit so i went out and took some pictures and my dad lowered the flag pole........ Here are some of the pictures! please note some of them are not that nice because i took them through the glass door... :D (the sky looked awesome though!}

yeah i don't think thats supposed to happen!

 

please note: thats not fog.... its sleet!



our last daisy....  :'(

our own private moat around the house!

the err "dry towel" {the lighter purple spots are not dry spots its where the towel got bleached! :D }

ahhh the beautiful sky

picking up one of the little flags that used to line our drive way!