Tempest

 There are really a few pros you can count of living on the outskirts of the city. 

Less pollution, more peace and almost no noise. Otherwise, the market is pretty far away, there is abundance of insects and an alarming number of stray dogs. 

A mixed blessing we have here is the weather. Storms are much more frequent and devastating here. However nothing could beat the pleasant weather of spring and autumn. 

Suburbia neither enjoys that good weather nor is harmed by its severity. So it is safe to presume that weather here is actually a double edged sword. Achilles's heels for some, blessing in disguise for others.

We live pretty close to the river and the thickets of trees, so we can actually sense a storm before we can see it. 

The wind becomes eerily still, and it becomes as humid as a swamp. Then we hear the distant swishing of trees, swaying wildly and feel the cold winds that become sharper with every passing minute. Tides toss and turn in the river and drizzling starts. Soon after the storm hits. The wind howls in the barren lands and the rain starts coming down in bucket loads. Now and then, lightning strikes and the darkness around us turns into a bright flash for a single moment. 

Often more than never, the storm does not last more than a few hours. But it is usually invincible.

That is the main difference between a stormy weather and a stormy heart. Because unlike the conspicuous weather, the storm in a heart can be concealed. No matter how many ships are wrecked in your heart, how many days have passed without sunlight, how much of you has drowned, you can always paint a sunny sky on the outside. 

The word used for heart is usually shattered, one often reads it in Victorian Gothic Novels:

  " Her heart shattered in a thousand pieces"

  Silly. The same word is used for glass. Glass and heart are both shattered. Sometimes crushed, sometimes broken, yes, but mostly shattered.

  Biologists will surely disagree with me but the heart seems a kind of a glass vessel. A vessel strong enough to hold a storm .Sometimes it gets cracked and the wild winds start to escape.

  You can sense it then, the storm inside. 

  You forget to add sugar to your tea. You go a day or two without drinking water. You wonder the last time you wrote something. You can feel the incoming storm.

  And once the vessel breaks, than the tempest will do whatever it pleases, not minding you or your paper tiger will.

John Green wrote in "Turtles all the way down":-

"Tonight, under the sky, she asked me, “Why do all the ones about me have quotes from The Tempest? Is it because we are shipwrecked?”

Yes. Yes, it is because we are shipwrecked."

The longest storm ever observed was Hurricane John. It lasted from August 1994 to September 1994 and resulted in a havoc in Alaska, Hawaii and many Islands. It is said to have caused a damage worth 15 million dollars.

 Scientist estimate that typical storms last from usually 2 hours and might extend to 7 hours. The usual target damage is probably public utilities, public transport and electricity distribution.

 This is another difference between heart storms and weather storms. Unlike weather storms, you can't predict how long a heart storm will last, you can't predict how much damage it will cause. 

 You can only be ready to rebuild everything when it is over.