Thunderstorm!

Well, it took about three weeks of high humidity to combine with southerly winds, but we finally got our thunderstorm this afternoon!

It didn’t last long (huge disappointment) but brought a lot of noise as the wind ushered in about two minutes of hail before turning back to “just” rain.

My flower bed has been thriving in the humidity. And as soon as the rain stopped, the birds came out to play.

And Frankly, My Dear… that’s all she wrote!

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It Was a Dark and Stormy Afternoon

Those thunderstorms we’ve been waiting on? You know, once the ridiculously hot triple-digit weather wafted into something a tad bit cooler and stirred up the atmosphere with the confronting high/low pressure fronts…

Yeah. THOSE thunderstorms…

We had our first little taste overnight. At 3:06 a.m. Friday the 13th no less, I was awakened by one subtle roll. Soon after, a louder one, and a few minutes later, a third. But then it was quiet. The rains began gently, turning into a steady downpour but nothing horrific.

But today we’re on the map for several days of STORMS. And they’re coming. … read the rest. . .

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