Event horizon
October 30, 2003
My sister called up on the phone this evening to tell me to go outside and see the northern lights. What I saw is very close to the photograph above (which I snagged from CNN), though it looked more like a vortex swirling above me showering down colored sheets of clouds. It was the most beautiful and the most Star Trek-ish phenomenon I've ever witnessed. I found myself gazing up into the sky mesmerized as the colors shifted, changed and swirled about many miles above me. Truly an awesome sight.
Wait, where are you, to be able to see such a thing? Must have been incredible. I'll never forget one night in Maryland years and years ago when the sky was flecked with green, and pulsing. I read the next day that it was the northern lights -- but at the time, I swear it felt like the Apocalypse.
I live in Rush, New York, which is a small town south of Rochester, NY. It was a remarkable sight, and though I didn't see any green, there was plenty of color to be seen.
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