Day 18: Winter closing in

I woke this morning to the sound of thunder. Lightning and thunder are rare in Seattle, it was 5:30 in the morning, and I’d been asleep just a moment before, so I didn’t realize at first what had awakened me. As the boom rumbled on and on, I asked Paul if it was thunder, and he said yes, that he’d seen the flash just before I woke up. And, by the way, it was snowing. As I lay wondering about what might cause snow and thunder at the same time, the sky outside our window lit up again. Out of decades-old habit, I counted in my head: one one thousand, two one thousand, three one — boom! The thunder cracked, then rolled on for a couple of seconds. Two to three miles away, that lightning, if the rule I learned as a child is correct. I curled closer to Paul, and went back to sleep.

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By the time we went out for a walk this afternoon, our neighborhood was blanketed in snow.