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Hello!
Many years ago—right after I moved to the Arizona desert—I was driving home in a severe rain storm.
The rain was coming down HARD in a driving wind—so I decided to stop and take shelter at a convenience store—rather than risk driving in what was becoming very dangerous conditions.
Once inside, I wandered around the the small store just killing time—and peering out the window occasionally waiting for the heavy rain and wind to end.
All at once the whole building began to shake under a tremendous downward wind.
Thankfully, it only lasted seconds—both because it was pretty scary—and also because I sincerely believe the building could not have with-stood much more and collapsed.
Later—When the rain and wind finally slowed—I continued my journey homeward and found the roads covered with large tree branches and leaves—and all kinds of debris.
Then I came upon an entire shed that was sitting in the middle of the road—obviously blown there by the wind.
I knew then that it had been a very destructive storm that had covered a large area.
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Later when I made it home—I turned on the TV and discovered all the local News Stations talking about the storm and the "Micro-Burst" that had hit the area I'd just driven through.
A Wikipedia entry about Micro-Bursts describes them succinctly:
"A micro-burst is an intense small-scale downdraft produced by a thunderstorm or rain shower."
Someone shared this NASA image on that entry—to illustrate the phenomena.
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| "Illustration of a
micro-burst. The air moves in a downward motion until it hits ground level. It then spreads outward in all directions." |
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Recently, photographer Peter Maier captured an amazing time-lapse sequence of an awesome rainstorm passing over a large lake and dumping a literal waterfall of rain driven downward by a micro-burst—(uploaded to his YouTube Channel on 6-12-18).
Peter poetically calls what he captured a "Tsunami from Heaven"—which is a fitting description IMHO.
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Check out the AWESOME video below—and see if you don't agree that it is awe inspiring!
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Enjoy!
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