Wind & Tide Playground - Thunderstorm

Nobody will EVER top Michael Oster's "Suburban Thunder" for the absolute best recording of a thunderstorm: michaeloster.bandcamp.com/album/suburban-thunder Nevertheless, when a front blew through this morning, it announced itself with a clap of thunder so massive that it shook my house to its foundations and scared the shit out of me. I knew I HAD to try to get a piece of it. It's not in any danger of unseating Oster, but there were some nice rolling tumblers up high in the atmosphere, and on a big stereo the subsonic content is palpable. Major elements: * Birds * Thunder * Rain hitting the dry gutters * 55-in. Corinthian Bells wind chimes * A distant dog * Distant leaf blowers * Aircraft * Cars and a truck See also: https://anode1.bandcamp.com/album/auss25-thunderstorm Here's an interesting thing. Another Radio Aporee user, "Cathartech" (AJ Lindner), caught the very same thunderstorm as me: https://aporee.org/maps/work/user.php?u=2632 He says he started his recording at 7:50 a.m., while mine started at 8:45 a.m., some fifty-five minutes later. If the storm was moving north at approximately 40 miles per hour, that means the ENORMOUS (but distant) thunderclap you hear in his recording at 24:24 could be the echo, from 40 miles away, of the massive thunderclap that struck me just before I started recording. If that's the case the rest of our recordings must overlap, from a distance of three sound-minutes apart... but the thunderclaps don't really line up to prove it.