Stormy Climate – The Unconventional Gardener

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Now that my stuff on rising crops in house has moved over right here, there’s house right here for me to put in writing about different stuff.

Work is taking on a number of my time in the intervening time, and we’re spring cleansing and attempting to get the home below management, and I’m studying German (by way of Duolingo), so I don’t have a lot headspace for extra artistic writing. However I wish to do extra, so I’m going to strive posting right here daily musing on one thing that has caught my eye.

It’s raining this morning, actually closely. It’s throwing it down, as we’re hit by (yet one more) winter storm. And so I used to be considering of the methods by which storms function in tales.

There’s the apparent, in fact – storms are atmospheric. They add a be aware of peril, or darkness, to a scene. You possibly can sense a pending storm coming, or have the skies clearing within the aftermath of a troublesome time.

Storms can lure individuals inside. It may be claustrophobic, inflicting raised tensions. They are often trapped inside with one thing, or with out one thing they want, like energy. There’s an episode of Bones the place a storm traps among the crew contained in the Jeffersonian Museum whereas others are out on the planet, monitoring down a assassin who can also be carrying a virus that might begin a pandemic. A powercut provides to their issues, one in all which is private for 2 of the trapped individuals. You get the concept.

After which, in fact, there are the stormchasers, and different individuals who revel within the wild energy and are happier exterior within the climate than inside.

In case your world has magic, then somebody might have brought on the storm, or be attempting to comprise it.

The storm may very well be wanted in a roundabout way – cathartic, cleaning, placing out fires or triggering new life.

In a extra historical setting, individuals may very well be afraid they’ve angered the gods, or be attempting to appease the gods to convey concerning the finish of the storm.

And fashionable tales can present storms from house (as in The Day After Tomorrow, my favorite movie to observe on a swelteringly scorching day), and there are lightning detectors on satellites now, watching from above.

So there’s a number of potential in storms. What do they imply to you? Do they function in your writing?

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