Time Passages

  

This sunset was a perfect ending to an interesting day, and boy, do I mean interesting. I'll give you a little background information, the past few days we have had some extremely hot weather, in the mid 90's with what I would consider low humidity, nothing unbearable but definately, uncomfortable so when we had a thunderstorm late yesterday afternoon, we were excited.

Our excitement turned to disillusionment very quickly. As I was enjoying the ensuing rain, I noticed numerous lightening strikes and loud claps of thunder, you know the kind that makes you cringe when you hear it and then the telephone rang. A lady my family knew called to inform us that lightning had struck one of our barns. Without fear, my grandfather and I jumped into his truck and set off to see the damage. When we arrived I was shocked to see at least 45 foot high flames and then the total collapse of the barn.

Within 10 minutes the local fire station responded with members from 2 surrounding stations, and all was quickly doused but not before the barn was lost. I hate that I did not have my camera but pressing matters come first. I hope to go back and photograph the "ruble". Hat's off to the volunteer fireman and forest ranger that responded to the fire.

Dell Canada