A Storm From My Ninth Floor Windows

Boy, this one blew up from nowhere!  I was working away at my computer on my travel plans and thought "that sure sounds like wind".  Went and looked and it was and it was blowing in one of the great black storm clouds that I love seeing from up here - it looks like some kind of invasion or something.  So I decided to take pictures to post here.  They certainly don't do justice to the drama, but...

 

 No rain yet, but it's blowing across from the river...

and here you see the rain hitting town...

The hills over in Ohio are beginning to disappear...

And the grey between the cloud and the ground is, of course, the rain pouring down...

This looks like it's the rain right outside my window, but it isn't - it's the rain off in the distance and it's the first time I've ever seen rain actually coming out of the clouds this distinctly.  It was truly pouring sheets of rain!

And this is what was left of my view out the windows.

This was taken the morning after to show what the view is normally like from that same window.  And it looks like it may be thinking about raining again...

I suppose, all told, this storm lasted maybe half an hour?  And then all became clear, sunny and cleanly beautiful.  Took some of the mug out of the air (at least temporarily).  I went up to the roof garden last night to finish off my glass of wine, and almost every chair up there had been blown across the deck, some of the tiles in the tile top tables had been blown out of their setting, one of them broken, so I guess one can say "that was some storm, all right".