Storm

Have you ever HEARD a rainstorm coming?  A blustery purple day, a damp sidewalk, and a sound like a diesel engine roaring up the street behind m. I turned around and saw a wall of grey, and the howling began - the wind moaned along the electrical wires with a sound stripped from grade-school books ghost stories- throbbing purple "ah-hooooo" sound and I was drenched - just like that - raindrops the size of 50-cent coins sparking and bouncing off my skin like hail.