On one fine morning, Hal and her friends decided to come to the surface of the lake to enjoy some fresh air. Little did she know this was her day to take a trip to the heavens and back. While on the surface, there was some sunshine which Hal was really enjoying. She normally enjoys the sunshine most of the times. In the process, she got turned from her liquid state, through evaporation, to a gaseous state. She felt so light and felt herself being lifted upwards into the skies.
In the skies, she felt a rapid change of temperature (Price, 2013, p. 54), as it started getting colder that it had been while on the surface and in the air. Hal suddenly felt her movements drag, and realized she also felt she was moving closer to some of her friends whom she had parted while on the journey upwards. What they didn’t know was that they had been re-converted back to their former state, liquid, by condensation. They moved closer and closer to each other until they were touching again. More friends kept joining them until they formed clouds. This coming together could however not protect them from strong winds that kept pushing the clouds in a forward and backward direction simultaneously. Hal felt attached to the cloud, which was moving so she tagged and moved along.
The winds kept moving the clouds back and forth, this movement resulting in thunderstorms that kept them in this disturbed state. As this happened, their bodies became charged causing lightning to occur due to the difference charges potential between them and the ground (Vijayaraghavan, 2004, p. 4). It is the continued movement that started to again shake Hal and her friends apart until she felt she just had a few of them around her again. As the tossing continued, Hal lost the grip on her friend and lost the balance that had to help her up in the skies. Suddenly she felt some heaviness that she could no longer hold herself in the skies.
She started losing her attitude towards the ground again. Little did she know that although the clouds had appeared to have been rotating at the same place, they had actually moved to a new location. Hal together with their friends has now gained speed the further they moved towards the ground. Their arrival on the ground constituted rainfall, a form of precipitation. Hal, however, found herself in a new location. She really missed her friends and life in the lake that she decided to trace her way back home.
As she was contemplating what to do, some of her friends joined her and together they discovered that they could again move faster from where they had dropped. They moved downhill towards a stream of water a few meters from the lake. They were happy to have joined the stream because they were sure they would get back home in good time to be rejoined with their family.
Their momentum in the stream was even faster as they joined other water molecules. They could feel the bombardment among themselves increasing with the joining of other members who also wanted to return home to the lake. In no time, they were back in the lake and happy again that they had made it home, when most of her friends had not.
Hal’s family was overjoyed to see her back. In the one hour, she had been away, they had really missed her and her friends. She told them the story of how she had got carried away and back home in just one hour.
References
Price, M. F. (2013). Mountain geography: Physical and human dimensions. Berkeley, Calif. [u.a.: Univ. of California Press.
Vijayaraghavan, G. (2004). Practical grounding, bonding, shielding and surge protection. Oxford: Newnes.
