Ruth, The Sun Is Shining
April, 1968
"There is no such thing as heat lightning," Bobby Norton told his wife. "The illuminations of a hot summer evening, flashing and flashing again, with no following sound, are actually made by lightning strokes in electrical storms so far away that the thunder dies in the air long before it can reach the ear of the observer. While a lightning stroke is destroying something somewhere, it is flickering, you see, like the aurora, somewhere else. A thunderstorm over Washington can cause...
