Thunder & Lightning

Wow!
Last night a heavy thunderstorm came over Wiener Neustadt. Lots of rain and for a short while even hail - thank goodness nothing serious happened!
After the first wave of heavy rain I started watching the lightnings all around. They are so beautiful - dangerous but beautiful. The way they enlight the clouds and everything else is just imcomparably impressing.
I even made a short video of some of these forceful beasts.
Hope you like it!



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MC listened to: AC-DC - Thunderstruck
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riders on the storm (2)

Yesterday when we left the Raimund Theater there was a really terrible weather in Vienna. Heavy raining, strong wind and fast sequenced flashes everywhere. We had just a few meters to the car but within less then a minute we were wet to the bones.
The way home was not as bad as first expected. Different than the last time we didn't feel like a submarine due to the amounts of water coming from the sky but it would have been helpful if the car was an amphibian vehicle. Nearly every street was covered with water - but not just wet, they were partly lake-like with depths of more then half of the wheels' height.
I am sure they had to close a lot of underpasses.
On the freeway the rain nearly stopped but it was still stormy and all around you could see the beautiful lightshows of the lightnings through the clouds.
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MC listened to: CCR - Who'll Stop The Rain
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riders on the storm

WTF!
This weekend the storm 'Emma' blew over great parts of Austria. It did a lot of damage and some people got hurt and a few even were killed. But after all we are very lucky not to have such catastrophal disasters in our area as there are in other parts of the world!
On Saturday we went to Vienna to see the Queen-Musical 'We Will Rock You', a great birthday present I got from Julia. Whe we started in Wiener Neustadt sun was shining and it was rather warm. So I didn't think it would get so bad on the way.
Half the way to Vienna we met 'Emma' on the freeway. The the wind was fast and hard, the embedded rain wasn't falling straight down or a bit tilted by the wind - it was coming nearly horizontally!
In parts it was hard to keep the car straight on track. Worst was that it came in single strong squalls. I was really glad that I have a limo and not a van or something like that.
It was the first time I had to drive 70 kph (about 44 mph) or less on the freeway without being caught in a traffic jam.
When we arrived in Vienna it was already over, just a bit windy.
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MC listened to: The Doors - Riders On The Storm
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