08-02-07
8:11 PM
Haven’t been in a thunderstorm like this before. One great blast after another, each one setting off a car alarm. Beep beep beep until the owner turns it off and the lightning turns it on again.

08-03-07
3:08 PM
The storm last night here in Fort Collins was enormous. Lightning strikes with nearly no pause in between. Flying sheets of rain. The roof where my son worked was leaking. His car had to be moved when water in the parking lot rose eight inches high. The roof where his roommate worked was struck by lightning. He says a coworker’s hair stood on end. That he felt as though someone shoved him in the chest. That he has never heard anything so loud.

My bo was in the car—I thought it a safer place than in an apartment that has just been moved into with all of the half-open boxes and debris. But it turns out I’d left the back window of the car open a crack. The seat was soaked, as was the bo cover. I had to work it off, stretch it out to dry. I was unhappy about that, but looking now at the naked bo standing in the corner of the room, I can’t but think it’s happier here than all bundled up in tapestry and trappings. It’s summer after all.

It’s a most beautiful day today, as beautiful as a glass of local ale, dry clean air, and two guys happy the semester is over can make it. But we can see a great wall of cloud to the north, the promise of more storm to come.