I’m sitting at a restaurant in Costa Rica looking out over a ledge into the dark sky. Every 30 seconds the sky lights up and flashes a couple times — lightening. Soon, there will be thunder. The thunder will be loud. Louder than anything in the States. The thunder will last for a few hours.
Then rain will come, and in the rain the monkeys and other animals will make weird sounds.
The sky lighting up is like bombs exploding in the neighboring city; the thunder is the sound of bombs; the animal noises sound like surface to air missiles.
(Note: Costa Rica is a very safe and peaceful country. 🙂 )