thunderstorm and coffee

WOW!!! What an incredible mind-fuck the weather can be :-))) Today was one of those hot, muggy days, when you feel sticky and lazy. The sun wasn't directly out there, but you could feel its effects. It was the kind of day that it took us about 20 minutes to walk to the Wharf, instead of about 5, and we had to sit down and take it easy when we got there. If I had thought about it then I'd have said there was going to be a thunder storm that evening, just to clear things a bit. I didn't, and there was. It was one of the best thunder storms I've ever experienced :-) All of a sudden it turned lovely and cool, and we could see the storm front coming over the river twoards us, so we went out to the pier to get closer to it. The rain, when it hit, was fantastic, it was cold but not too cold and it felt very refreshing. Then the lightening started to strike the buildings around us!! It suddenly got very loud and very scary - the storm was directly above us, and we were out fairly much in the open with all this electricity striking the building just around the corner. Then the rain turned cold, like really cold, and heavy, so we started to run home. The rain became so heavy that it started to hurt where it hit us, and the sound of it on the ground was like a large audience clapping. Just as we got back to the house it turned to hail stones. They were so big and heavy that I still (this is 24 hours later) have some small bruises on my arm where I stuck it out into the open to show Cian some of them in my hand! There was only one way to cap this all off - a long steamy hot bath and some coffee :-)))