Musing on the drive home from town just now on how, before I moved to #NewMexico, I had no idea that rain was ever something you could see from far away.

Akkana Peck

Musing on the drive home from town just now on how, before I moved to #NewMexico, I had no idea that rain was ever something you could see from far away. It's just not something that ever happens in California: when it rains there, it's the type where the whole area is cloudy and grey and drizzly. I much prefer NM-style rain (just wish there was more of it).

#NMwx

Greg Tripp

Noooooo... it's been raining on and off here in Southern California for literal days. I'm eager to get back to cloudless skies when I return to Roswell.

Valerie Norton

@akkana But... it does happen. This picture is when I'm wondering why everyone is waiting for me in a valley on the rainy side of things when it's so nice and dry and sunny where I am. While this photo is NorCal, I've watched rain far off in SoCal many times too.

Now, New Mexico is one of the few places I've gotten to watch night time lightning so far off I couldn't hear it. That's always crazy and wonderful.

And I'll totally hit the #FootpathFriday tag for this, since it nearly is.

Alison Chaiken

@akkana Once I convinced a group of camping-fearful friends that sleeping on a "floating campsite" on Lake Oroville would be safe. I was first awake in the morning and that a ginormous black thunderhead was an hour away. I woke everyone up and told them that we had half an hour to get to shore. Sure enough, a violent hail and lightning storm let loose. So much for introducing them to camping.