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To: Gauguin who wrote (40532)	10/28/1999 1:10:00 AM
From: Jacques Chitte	Read Replies (4) of 71178

A cloud story for you. Today it got all warm, humid and electric in the air - a storm is coming off the Big Water. An hour ago I was struck by the inexplicable impulse to leave the computer and take a walk. It is still warm, and a fitful breeze brings the smell of ocean and wet mountains into the valley. Up above, the sky looks clear, but the absence of stars reveals that the teal-black velvet is a high cloud deck - too high to catch the urban glare. Down low are fluffy bits of storm scud, all bright and peachy-cream colored in the streetlamp backwash. But in between is the good stuff. There's a lee wave, a lenticular cloud stretched taut like an eighty-mile surfboard above the coastal ridge from Marin to Santa Cruz. This cloud has the most dynamic look of any cloud ... a thunderstorm looks like a clumsy accident by comparison. It is like a bolt of frozen lightning... the feathery edges look like something that got captured and preserved while moving way too fast. Like a freeze-frame of a gazelle evading-and-extending from an overly ambitious cheetah. The wave cloud seemed to vibrate over the waiting land, signifying in a most ancient script the power and direction of the incoming storm. A cheetah cloud in continuous mid-leap.

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