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California wildfires

posted 4 years ago by Who (5146)
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In mid August a rare thunder and lightening storm swept through California and ignited most of the giant wildfires still raging across the state.

Late at night in mid August, I woke up to flashes of light coming in the window. It was about 3 am. No sound of thunder, just a silent light storm. Over the next hour the full storm rolled in, wind gusts picked up, and the thunder started.

But the lightening was just like this movie. Flashes overlapping flashes. Forked lightening in the mountains.

Now living in the aftermath of that storm, fires killing people, destroying neighborhoods, forests, it reminds me of this film. Like this film was a metaphor for environmental disasters.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-09-09/lightning-california-fire-season-pacific-storm

[–] MikeCable (1770) 3 years ago

Thanks for sharing how you felt. I can see how that would give you feelings of this movie.

I grew up with strange feelings from Close Encounters of the Third Kind which also had flashing lights in the sky with no sound. It was very creepy to watch as a little kid so I found War of the Worlds similarly creepy with the storm at the start.