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Howard Tayler

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That noise? It was thunder. The storm had been building to the southwest, and was now rolling straight toward us, sucking the ground-level air into itself. The firework finale was punctuated by thunder AND LIGHTNING, and when the show finished the rain started to fall.

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And then? Well, then all the happy Utah picnickers who didn't grow up in Florida with *real* thunderstorms began screaming and running because oh no there's rain. I stood amid the chaos and breathed deeply. I was the calm amid a multi-sensory storm, and OH MY GOODNESS happy Independence Day to me.

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