The Lake Pontchartrain Causeway gets it's share of bad weather. When you're out there 15 miles or so over the water, you're pretty exposed. High wind advisories are not uncommon -- they suddenly lower the speed limit on those electronic signs to 45 mph.It wasn't good enough for us the other day when this suprise greeted us. The sky became almost black as night, the white caps on the lake started appearing and then the rain came.
We were hard pressed to keep up 30 mph -- the wind was whipping the car around. Then I saw something I had never seen. The wind started pushing the white caps down -- it pushed straight down and pushed the lake nearly still in a few places.
The end of this story is that we made it safely to our boiled crabs dinner -- the crabs were more than delicious.
--steve buser
10 comments:
I've never seen such angry sky in real life. Looks like you're chasing tornado, doesn't it?
Definitely an angry looking sky. I would feel a bit exposed having to travel that far over water.
Do you get many tornadoes in the area?
Maybe all of that weather was a warning not to eat the boiled crabs. Maybe the ocean needed the crabs. I have no idea but a lot of people would heed warnings like that. I like the photo and it looks like a huge waterspout. Is that it?
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Oh amazing for me...GREAT one! we saw once in TV channel that there are exist travel agent specialist in chasing thunder storm in USA
What a stunning photograph. Loved your posting yesterday too.
Not sure I could keep traveling toward a cloud like that! Like the others, I wonder if this is a great big waterspout. Glad you made it across safely.
Wow Steve!!! Your photos are better and better. This photo shows really awesome. The lights on the street make a very good contrast to this hellish clouds.
Tornado! I agree with you, it's definitely looking pretty angry. Glad that you reached safely for your boiled crabs dinner. :D
Nice photo. Love the unique colour of the tornado.
Steve, what a brilliant photo! Very atmospheric!
very impressive sky. very impressive photo :)
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