Greensboro has had some strange thunderstorms this summer. They hit parts of the city and in other parts of Greensboro, it doesn't even rain. Late Tuesday afternoon, the winds were really strong downtown. In the above photo, you see the former First Presbyterian Church in the background. In the foreground, you see a pear tree that broke at the O. Henry Monument. Storms remind us that humans are not always in control.
The scene, with the church and storm, evokes the following Old Testament Bible verse: "It will be a shelter and shade from the heat of the day, and a refuge and hiding place from the storm and rain." Isaiah 4:6. There are days when places like the Old First Presbyterian Church of Greensboro, now the Greensboro Historical Museum, become shelter and shade from the heat of the day. Also, they are a great place to go to hide from the storm and rain, whether the storm is literal or imagined. In the photo below, you see a view, a few feet to the right, with all of the newspaper boxes that had blow over. Happy Sunday! We hope you had a great Fourth of July and that today is a calm, storm-free, day of rest. If there is a storm, the historical museum is open.
I would like a thunderstorm just now, even with some of these undesirable effects...
Posted by: VP | Sunday, July 05, 2015 at 10:43 AM
We've had some terrible afternoon thunderboomers, too, and quite a bit of damage to trees, houses and other buildings. The heat builds during the day and then we get cooler air coming in off the Gulf and that mix fuels some bad storms...
Posted by: Lowell | Sunday, July 05, 2015 at 12:24 PM
Dad would call these 4 colored boxes: 4 dead soldiers.
Posted by: birdman | Sunday, July 05, 2015 at 08:12 PM
The storms definitely must have been powerful.
Posted by: William Kendall | Monday, July 06, 2015 at 12:00 PM