Our 8th wedding anniversary

[bassfisher]

Our 8th wedding anniversary was this past Monday 8/16/10. So the wife wants me to take her fishing. (She had to really twist my arm , LOL) So we head out Sunday evening to Taylorsville Lake to fish that night, sleep, then get up on Monday and start fishing again. Well we were having a BLAST, catching bass. (We had 3 - me two, and her one). We noticed this storm cloud really building in front of us. We kept fishing and watching the clouds building. Well it start lightning way in front of us. (We could see it but not hear thunder yet). So we kept on fishing. Well it got closer, and we started hearing the thunder. So we started talking about heading away from the storm. Well we could hear the storm really good now, so we fired the motor up and headed away FAST! As we are moving I noticed stars are out over our heads, and we also pass this other boat still fishing. So I brought the boat to a stop and we start talking again, about whether we should head in or try our luck and stay. I guess the other boat was talking also, because they fired their motor and started heading in. Well about that time lightning hits right on top of the mountain in front of us, pretty close. Needless to say I fire up the motor again, and blast out of there. We catch the other boat (which had disappeared, by the time I started our boat). We head for the marina to hide under shelter to wait the storm out; the other boat heads in to the dock. We find an empty slot, and tie her down tight. Well it isn’t 3 minutes, and all hell breaks loose. Rain is coming down in buckets, the wind is blowing the rain sideways, and lucky for us, we docked on the opposite side from the approaching storm, so we stayed (mostly) dry. We look up and see the other boater running to his truck in the downpour. We say a little prayer for him to got his boat out of the water safely, because now it is STORMING out there, like it’s nobody business, lightning everywhere, right on top of us!! Heck, even the birds are hiding under the cover with us, it’s that bad. Well the storm last about 30 minutes, and starts to ease up, but the lightning continues for another hour. So there we sit and watch this lightning show like we’ve never seen before. (Sure wish I had brought out the camera and videoed it, because there is no way I could ever describe how intense this storm was.) Then we start talking about whether we should stay under the cover of the marina or head out and sleep at our fishing spot for the next morning. Needless to say the wife talked me into staying under the shelter of the marina. Well about 2 a.m. it starts to rain again. The wife says you hear that, and I say yep. Once again it’s a good thing I listened to her!!

It seem to never fail, we always see something you only see once in a life time on our anniversary, and/or on my birthday, while out fishing or motorcycling.