Thunder and lightning
(Storm from our window: Suzhou)
This isn’t the best image, but it was so dark and windy, we couldn’t do any better. The week that I left China, there was this magnificent storm that appeared over a few minutes to become quite terrifying. You can perhaps see the force of the wind from the rain patterns in the top left of the photograph; water was being whipped around the roofs of the high rises and across the leaves of all the trees, ripping them to shreds.
Shortly after this was taken, I convinced Ying to come outside with me for a better look at the sky, but by that time, huge strikes of lightning were splitting the sky. One vast crack of lightning divided the dark right down the middle, as if the black sky had been torn in half for a split second. It was incredible. We had plans to meet people for dinner, but all of them called to convince us not to go, but a wait of half an hour allowed it to pass as swiftly as it appeared.
