Lightning
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Have you ever experienced something so beautiful yet so ridiculously scary at the same time? I sure have! Ok, so I'm the type of girl who loves and believes nature is beautiful, and lightning storms are one of my favorite things. I don't exactly know what it is about them that i love so much. Maybe its just the fact that electricity forms in the sky shooting down to earth creating a phenomenon for some viewers and terror for others. One of my favorite past times was when my Dad and I sat on the front porch and watch the T-storms pass by.
But that was up in lil Rhode Island. Now I live down in Florida, the lightning capital of the world! Exciting, I know.
Now to my story: My roomie, Peter, and I decided to go to the gym at out apartment complex. While we were working out we started to hear thunder in the distance (which is nothing unusual), so we decided to head back to our place. Jokingly I asked if we should run back, but neither of us like to run or were in the mood to. Then Peter makes a comment about how dark and scary the clouds above us were. Not only were these clouds evil and dark looking, it appeared as if they were circling above us, and rapidly. The more I looked at the clouds, I found these odd patches of aqua in the sky. I have never seen such a pretty, odd, yet scary color in the sky like that before. About a minute later, lighting right above us shoots down, separating into 3 streaks, and scares the living daylights out of us. We scream so loud and start running for our lives! Seconds later another lightning streak hits right near us again and we jump to hide. They were literally RIGHT THERE! I thought we were going to get struck! We finally got back to the apartment, and I literally collapse on the ground trying to catch my breath and slow my heart rate. I have never experienced anything like that before in my life. It was the most exhilarating, breathtaking, life-threatening and scary moment I have ever encountered.
