Moment – Train in Rain

christelle — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 13:24:27 +0000

I think the rains over the weekend brought this memory up again. It was one of those mid-summer trips I made this year. It was April – the time when temperature begins to get to the higher side, the sleeper coach begins to feel like a hot oven, and we hope for a surprise drizzle or shower.

The train was in the middle of nowhere – rocketing through the vast, parched land (i.e., as fast as it can go – 60kmph? All of a sudden, I could see dark clouds in the distance, soon it became a drizzle. Funnily, though, it was raining on one side of the train. Even as we watched either side – we could see the train get under the rain clouds and soon…. it was showers on both sides.

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That odd moment!

christelle — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 16:56:06 +0000

I hear the rain and soon the power goes off. Dark. Quiet. I hear the rain a lot clearer, the thunder too! The lightning is brighter – no artificial light to pollute the scene. I stand at the door and watch – the rain I can hear but not see, the lightning I see but can’t hear, the buildings bright at a distance, the neon lights burning atop the building on the main road, the headlight odd vehicle lighting up the street below, the headlights of vehicles on another road leave designs on another wall…

…just another night to go, and I’d be gone…the building would get taller, the lights brighter…

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Moment – Train in Rain

That odd moment!