We drove home into an intense thunderstorm this afternoon. If we were in the midwest, the low dark cloud would probably have formed into a supercell, but it simply proceeded the downpour. When we got to 2nd Street on Alameda, an Action 7 News team was packing up. I couldn’t see anything worth getting wet over, but the storm. While the reporter looked dry under her umbrella, the poor cameraman was soaked. The field of corn that was so nicely backlit on Sunday morning was beaten down by the torrential rain. An hour and a half later the sun streamed through the gaps between the clouds, illuminating our neighbor’s trees with a bright, golden light.