This evening ….. about 22.00Hrs…….the storm hit us in Bloy Street Easton. I was sitting around with some friends getting stoned and drinking a bit of foreign alcohol….. you know the cheap-like. There was a kind of heavy showers predicted by the Weather Reports in the afternoon; I thought nothing about it until it was on us. And this one looked good. I went out after the second lightening which felt quiet and the rumble came after like an after thought. Boy I felt good with the very heavy clouds in the sky, thick and big rain drops pelting down; and as I went up the hill I saw the clouds are getting thicker. The lightening struck somewhere and it was like just a feeling and then I saw the light; then the distant rumble angry tones in them. I reached the top of the Devon Road hump bridge and I could still see the lights in the M32 area. Within a minute or less all the lights were covered by the cloud. Oh I wished I was up in the High Kingsdown area watching this area…… Then it came; deluge of water like a curtain. Man I was in….. hmmmmm it is not some thing I ever felt before. I cannot logically explain about it. Then the lightening; it was like two flashes in two different places in that cloud. And a low rumble which comes afterwards. Air was electric without the normal electric feeling you feel before thunderstorms; maybe due to the big drops of water which feels like a sheet of water but the sheet is very thick. You could see only a few feet. By this time I was on top of the bridge; I turned back towards Bloy street side and the hood of my coat came off, and I got hit by the wind and rain. I was soaked to the skin and the shoes were belching water. I felt panic and some strange feeling came over me. I started walking fast down the hump towards Bloy street and then realised that feeling was fear of death. I was quite sure that I was not afraid of dieing; now what?
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