Yesterday, I woke up to darkness. The alarm clock said it was after 8am, but the bedroom was DARK! I slipped out of bed and went to look out the window and I felt very much like what the surviving dinosaurs must have felt the day after the meteor struck. “Well, I’m still here, but it looks like Hell out there!” | |
The sky was a dark reddish, orange and grey with a steady (but light) ash-fall. The streetlights were still on, because the day-light sensors were telling the lights it’s still night-time. | |
Here’s a shot looking east to where the sun normally is at this time of morning… | |
Here are a couple of shots of my car (which is parked under our carport)… | |
Here’s a shot of the ashes covering our backyard garden table… The shadows you see are from the motion-activated yard lights which only come on when it is “dark”. They don’t come on during dusk / evening / twilight. Only when it is night. | |
The “day” brightened in the mid-afternoon before quickly getting dark again. The “orb” of the sun was never visible in the sky. | |
Just as a matter of personal curiosity, the lack of visible spectrum light made the greens, oranges and reds REALLY pop out with incredibly vibrant color. Truly bizarre! Or, as Mister Spock would say: “Fascinating!” | |
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On This Day In: | |
2022 | Every Morning |
2021 | In My Unending Story |
Say You Will (Shout) | |
2020 | A Day With No Sun |
A Beautiful Thing (Too Much Heaven) | |
A Moment To Rejoice | |
2019 | Where And Why |
Day 12: Pause Or Plateau? | |
Eating Later | |
2018 | Here And Hope |
2017 | Choose |
2016 | All I Ever Wanted |
2015 | Compassionate Toward Yourself |
2014 | All And None |
2013 | Voices In The Dark |
2012 | Does Uncommonly Flexible = Flip-Flopping? |
2011 | A Modest Review Of A Modern Day Classic |
Encouragement Is The Path To Immortality | |
A Day With No Sun
September 10, 2020 by kmabarrett
how utterly eerie
LoL! You have no idea! Like I said, it must be what the surviving dinosaurs felt like the day after the meteor hit (except for the street lights, of course 🙂 ). I spent a good part of the day trying to relate it to a prior experience. The closest I could come to it was in my late 20’s, I was on summer training down in Death Valley. We got hit by a sudden dust storm and dry lightening storm. With the dust, we could barely see the glows of the jeep’s headlights as we crawled along the road. While around us, on the mountain tops (I guess) we would get occasional flashes of lightening. We could these bright yellow / orange flashes through the reddish / brown dust. And, then of course, there was the rolling thunder from all 360°.
There wasn’t any lightening or thunder, yesterday, but the color of the sky (reddish / brown) was pretty close.
As you said: eerie…