A Force of Nature - Entry for the PowerHouseCreatives Contest...
This contest for the @steemitbloggers A.K.A #Powerhousecreatives has a contest theme of Eye Spy With My Little Eye... This week it is Something Dark, Big & Loud.
We have had a lot of dark and loud with the numerous thunderstorms rolling into our area. We even were part of the system that produced tornadoes in a provincial park an hours drive from us.
Devastating as you can see below -
Fortunately the tornado never hit us but it happened while we were having lunch with a torrential rainstorms, some hail and strong winds!
You know there is strong winds when the trees around our place in the forest are being bent over even right in our yard which is very sheltered!
We heard about the warnings for the storm after the fact but it's made me more aware when those dark looming clouds come over to tune in to the radio station or weather station and to have my transistor radio available so we can better prepare if it is tornadoes or large hail that is hitting us!
Here is one of the storms just rolling in with some weird cloud formations over the treetops!
Needless to say these occurred when we were on our walk with the dog! It made for a bit of a power walk to get back home before those Big, Dark Clouds rolled in bringing those Loud thunderstorms!
Image was taken with my Canon PowerShot A495
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Wow! I posted similar looking clouds today, but no tornado, as we don't get them here my friend. But the winds are strong enough to uproot trees and rip roofs off.
This is a great idea for the contest and good luck.
Blessings!
We don't usually get tornadoes in this area. It seems so strange to see this happening so close! Our weather patterns are changing and we've also been getting some destructive plow winds the last few years. I think it has something to do with the amount of forest that has been clearcut by the lumber companies!
In our area, such strong storms almost never happen. Although the clouds are similar to those in the pictures ... they just do not carry a storm.
I love a good storm to blow away all the junk
I thought I could smell the air. But it's probably because you wrote PowerShot A495 and I smelled some long ago power shot things, too.
Yes I love my simple PowerShot but I'm thinking of up grading - still keeping it fairly simple . Do you have any reccomendations for a intermediate level photographer for a new camera?
Mother nature can really pack a punch @porters! We are in hurricane season right now and not only do we fear those but the lightening! People are killed by lighting at an alarming rate, especially those who roof homes. Best to watch them from indoors! What a sky, I'm sure you receive a lot of rain and wind with those clouds
Oh my goodness! Hurricanes! Glad we don't have those here!
I fear the lightning too especially being in the forest with the tall trees to attract the lightning and the forest fires that are caused by those strikes. I like to be safe and secure indoors!