At One With Nature

This past August I went with my best friend Danielle and her family on their annual trip to Hilton Head, South Carolina. The time we spent there was one of the most fun experiences of my life and we made so many unforgettable and great memories together. However, on two of the ten days we were away we encountered severe thunderstorms. They were like nothing I had ever seen before. We were outside eating lunch and we looked up to see the ominous clouds above us moving closer and closer to the sun bringing on the inevitable storm. When it first started raining we decided to go out on the beach and play football with some of the friends we met there. At first we had a lot of fun, but then the thunder and lightning came. It got pretty dangerous so we quickly ran back to the pool area and although it was stupid, we stayed in the hot tubs underneath the trees thinking they were the tallest things around so any lightning would strike them. We eventually went back up to the hotel room and sitting on the couch we were able to look out through the huge window and watch the sky light up with lightning like nothing we had ever seen before. We saw the bolts streak across the sky and for an instant the sky turned purple. This lightning was persistent all through the night and again the next night. This experience did prevent us from going outside and enjoying the pool and ocean, but it also enlightened me to a whole new and interesting occurrence in nature.