keep the faith.

Hi, I'm Janice. “But…as bad as it was, I learned something about myself. That I could go through something like that and survive.”

[blitzedtodeath]

[nouralogical]

MY AMP GOES TO 11: Lightning Photography

• Lightning is a giant discharge of electricity accompanied by a brilliant flash of light and a loud crack of thunder. The spark can reach over five miles (eight kilometers) in length, raise the temperature of the air by as much as 50,000 degrees Fahrenheit (27,700 degrees Celsius), and contain a hundred million electrical volts.

• Some scientists think that lightning may have played a part in the evolution of living organisms. The immense heat and other energy given off during a stroke has been found to convert elements into compounds that are found in organisms.

• Lightning detection systems in the United States monitor an average of 25 million strokes of lightning from clouds to ground during some 100,000 thunderstorms every year. It is estimated that Earth as a whole is struck by an average of more than a hundred lightning bolts every second.

• The odds of becoming a lightning victim in the U.S. in any one year is 1 in 700,000. The odds of being struck in your lifetime is 1 in 3,000.

• Lightning can kill people (3,696 deaths were recorded in the U.S. between 1959 and 2003) or cause cardiac arrest. Injuries range from severe burns and permanent brain damage to memory loss and personality change. About 10 percent of lightning-stroke victims are killed, and 70 percent suffer serious long-term effects. About 400 people survive lightning strokes in the U.S. each year.

• Lightning is not confined to thunderstorms. It’s been seen in volcanic eruptions,extremely intense forest fires, surface nuclear detonations, heavy snowstorms,and in large hurricanes.

• Ice in a cloud may be key in the development of lightning. Ice particles collide as they swirl around in a storm, causing a separation of electrical charges. Positively charged ice crystals rise to the top of the thunderstorm, and negatively charged ice particles and hailstones drop to the lower parts of the storm. Enormous charge differences develop.

[Text source]

[uniqueinterference-deactivated2]

[coololivia]

I’m actually so proud of this picture

[thunder-st0rm]

omfg this is amazing

[toocooltobehipster]

[exorin]

YOU WOULD HAVE NEW BOOTS EVERYDAY DEPENDING ON WHAT SOCKS YOU WORE. 

[the-furby-queen]

OMFG YOU COULD WEAR ALL THE COOL SOCKS

[divinitatis]

[achilleam]

looking for alaska. on Flickr.

[shilled-deactivated20200604]

[softskywalkers]

OK SO I WAS IN A PUBLIC RESTROOM AND I OPENED A PAD AND A LITTLE GIRL IN THE STALL NEXT TO ME WAS LIKE “WHY DOES SHE HAVE A SNACK”

[therelatableimages]

[stoicremains-deactivated2017102]

Don’t make everyone know about your sadness.

John Steinbeck (via barbieandken)

[ianbrooks]

[observando]

[yxxck]

Is that what it feels like growing up? Like your always running out of time? Always awaiting tomorrow, next week, next month. And then realising time engulfed you, swallowed you whole, and spat you out right where you thought you wished to be?

(Yxxck)

[sarahseeandersen]

[discolor3d]

[melaniekirsh]

If I love you more, will you suffer less?

Elie Wiesel, quoting his five-year-old grandson at Boston University lecture series (via connotativewords)