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Yesterday's Weather ...
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was something else. It started out as an overcast day, maybe some rain, and from there, turned into a crazy-weather kind of day.
I went out to pick up a few things, when it began to rain. Of course, my eldest called me on my cell. I picked up the phone.
"Yes."
"It's raining."
"Yep. And long before you were conceived, I went out without you worrying about me."
"But it wasn't raining then."
"Don't sweat it, I'm not so mean that I'll melt when the rain hits me."
"Ha, ha... just be careful, Mom!"
"I always am. Bye."
I hang up the phone and shake my head. First it was my parents, now it's my children... and an all-too-short period where I was considered an adult, and competent to deal with the rain, for pity's sake!
As I head on down the road, it begins to rain harder... and hail starts to fall... the wind picks up, and now I'm concerned about whether I'm going to need a new windshield. The wind is driving the wind so hard, that there is almost zero visibility. All I could do is slow down to a crawl, like the other cars on the road with me.
Fortunately, one of my favorite gas places was up ahead, on the right, so I pulled in [it was on the list of things to get].
The wind and rain got progressively worse. Even under the canopy of the pumps, the rain was being driven by the wind so hard that you could barely get out of the car.Natures' fury was totally breathtaking. I had to wait ten minutes before it subsided enough to swipe my card and pump my gas. And when I did get out, I was soaked to the skin in less than thirty seconds [the time it took to swipe my card, take off the gas cap, put the nozzle in the pump and set it to autofill, and hop back in the car]. And this was under a canopy!!
Thankfully, about another ten minutes after I started pumping my gas [at $3.01/gal, thankyouverymuch... hooray!], the storm subsided, to being merely rain.
The weird, Twilight Zone Part?
I get back home after all that, and sign into Twitter. One of the people that I'm following is twittering about how he's got hail on his lawn after a storm... but he lives on the West Coast, in Los Angeles!! And, to top it off, it's at about the same time that I was dealing with my hailstorm!! Pretty creepy... identical weather on both coasts, three thousand miles apart, at roughly the same time?!?
As Arsenio Hall used to say, "Things that make you go, 'Hmmmmm....'"
I went out to pick up a few things, when it began to rain. Of course, my eldest called me on my cell. I picked up the phone.
"Yes."
"It's raining."
"Yep. And long before you were conceived, I went out without you worrying about me."
"But it wasn't raining then."
"Don't sweat it, I'm not so mean that I'll melt when the rain hits me."
"Ha, ha... just be careful, Mom!"
"I always am. Bye."
I hang up the phone and shake my head. First it was my parents, now it's my children... and an all-too-short period where I was considered an adult, and competent to deal with the rain, for pity's sake!
As I head on down the road, it begins to rain harder... and hail starts to fall... the wind picks up, and now I'm concerned about whether I'm going to need a new windshield. The wind is driving the wind so hard, that there is almost zero visibility. All I could do is slow down to a crawl, like the other cars on the road with me.
Fortunately, one of my favorite gas places was up ahead, on the right, so I pulled in [it was on the list of things to get].
The wind and rain got progressively worse. Even under the canopy of the pumps, the rain was being driven by the wind so hard that you could barely get out of the car.Natures' fury was totally breathtaking. I had to wait ten minutes before it subsided enough to swipe my card and pump my gas. And when I did get out, I was soaked to the skin in less than thirty seconds [the time it took to swipe my card, take off the gas cap, put the nozzle in the pump and set it to autofill, and hop back in the car]. And this was under a canopy!!
Thankfully, about another ten minutes after I started pumping my gas [at $3.01/gal, thankyouverymuch... hooray!], the storm subsided, to being merely rain.
The weird, Twilight Zone Part?
I get back home after all that, and sign into Twitter. One of the people that I'm following is twittering about how he's got hail on his lawn after a storm... but he lives on the West Coast, in Los Angeles!! And, to top it off, it's at about the same time that I was dealing with my hailstorm!! Pretty creepy... identical weather on both coasts, three thousand miles apart, at roughly the same time?!?
As Arsenio Hall used to say, "Things that make you go, 'Hmmmmm....'"
