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Storm-Struck Stone Walls

2020-06-29 By Roger Edwards

Storm-Struck Stone Walls

Storms aplenty have battered this relic of High Plains homesteading, from wintertime blizzards, to downburst-dumping summertime thunderstorms, to hail-flinging warm-season supercells such as the one in the background (that nearly spawned a tornado earlier).  Out in this harsh, unforgiving, dryland agricultural environment, a high fraction of storms that can produce enough rain to make crops worthwhile also are potentially damaging to the same crops, as well as a threat to the structures of those who would plant them.  This, therefore, has become livestock country, and expansive ranches long since have consumed smaller parcels pioneered by folks like the presumed builders of this house.  What a vast vista they had, as these tempests swept across the shortgrass prairie every spring and summer!

5 SW Kim CO (19 Jun 20) Looking SW
37.22, -103.436

Filed Under: Daytime Lightning, Unusual Weather Damage Tagged With: abandoned, clouds, Colorado, convection, Great Plains, Kim, landscapes, lightning, storms, supercells, thunderstorms, weather

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Welcome to SkyPix, an online photo book of clouds, weather and water by Roger Edwards. As in a printed coffee-table book, every image has its own page with a unique story. After all, meaningful photography is much more than just picture-taking; it is visually rendering a moment in place and time from a perspective like none other. As a scientist and an artist, I hope my deep passion for the power and splendor of our skies and waters shines through in these pages. If you are a cloud and weather aficionado, outdoor enthusiast, outdoor or nature photographer, art lover, or anyone who craves learning, enjoy...

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