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My wife and I took off roaming around the Guadalupe mountains Saturday afternoon. As we were headed west down State Hwy #137 we saw a huge plume of black smoke billow up underneath a thunderstorm to our northwest. We deviated west on Marathon Road and the north on White Pine Road where I shot the above photo. It appeared that lightning had struck a tank battery or oil storage tank northwest of the Oxy Corp, Indian Basin Gas Plant. We arrived at the Queen cafe around 1:00 pm where we had lunch. Afterwards we drove west down the Queens Hwy (St Hwy 137) until we came upon Rim Road #67 and then headed north along it. After stopping and roaming around a couple of times on the rim, my wife spotted this little guy. Notice the markings on his tail.  I Shot The Pictures Above Of The Flooding At 2:37 PM MDT.  While we were on top of the rim, on National Livestock Road or more commonly known as Rim Road #67 we encountered something I've neve...