Phineas
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The storm started with a low rumble way back as it struggled over Marcy. Billy the pitbull felt it first, stirred and started to pant. North winds pushed hostile storm clouds against the enduring flanks of the Great Range. Lightening flashed across the heavens and the rumble amplified into deafening, angry outbursts.
Down the Johns Brook valley she tore! Every lightening strike vanquished the night sky, flickering silver ever so briefly. It was only minutes from the initial sounds of thunder before the center of the storm was upon Keene Valley… A dagger struck forcibly near and the skies burst wide open! I awoke from my slumber.
Safely tucked away in the valley my thoughts backtracked the storm’s path. Rain water rushing vociferously down steep mountains - filling the Orbed, Slide Brook and the multitudes of unnamed tributaries.. Stormwater sliding torrentially towards the Johns Brook. The Brook swelling chaotically but unassumingly, it’s banks braced as the rising water raced unencumbered towards the east branch of the Ausable..
I wondered about the pine marten, the coyote, the bobcat… Were they sheltered and dry like I or caught prowling for prey and now drenched??
Another exhilarating early morning Mother Nature show!
Down the Johns Brook valley she tore! Every lightening strike vanquished the night sky, flickering silver ever so briefly. It was only minutes from the initial sounds of thunder before the center of the storm was upon Keene Valley… A dagger struck forcibly near and the skies burst wide open! I awoke from my slumber.
Safely tucked away in the valley my thoughts backtracked the storm’s path. Rain water rushing vociferously down steep mountains - filling the Orbed, Slide Brook and the multitudes of unnamed tributaries.. Stormwater sliding torrentially towards the Johns Brook. The Brook swelling chaotically but unassumingly, it’s banks braced as the rising water raced unencumbered towards the east branch of the Ausable..
I wondered about the pine marten, the coyote, the bobcat… Were they sheltered and dry like I or caught prowling for prey and now drenched??
Another exhilarating early morning Mother Nature show!