Stormy, Rainy, Thundery, Cold!

MyFebruary 4, 2014.

Stormy, Rainy, Thundery, Cold!

WHOA! ( Excuse me, I'm just shouting at the rain to slow down!) 

A sudden loud thunder clap and rumbles this morning, really shocked me. A day or two ago, there was in the forecast, a thunderstorm for Tuesday (today), and here it is, I said to myself, nothing on the computer forecast today indicating thunderstorms. I thought of it for a few minutes, and began thinking of something else. All of a sudden, the loud clap of thunder and   rumbling came - just one bang sounded - and it all went away. The thunderstorm had been playing hide-and-seek with me. I didn't hear any more rumbles or loud thunder.

It's now just past two o'clock, and it's been raining for a couple of hours on and off, but mostly ON in the last hour or more. The front sidewalk is inundated with water up to the porch. This part of the sidewalk near the porch is a little higher than the rest, and I doubt that the water would come up onto the low porch. 

About fifteen minutes ago, it sounded like a cloudburst, and I looked out ~ oh, my, it was indeed pouring, down the public sidewalk along the street, on the driveway, on the front lawn, making many more large puddles. More thunder claps sounded, and a little rumbling. It's time for the rain to stop so that the present floodwater would drain away. It seems that this street is on a little incline. That's why the rainwater comes dashing down the public sidewalk, and off the driveway onto the lawn.  

My daughter-in-law said she was going to go to her daughter's school for the Band Concert tonight, and yesterday when she asked me to go too, I said yes. (I do love band concerts.) I emailed her later saying that I checked with the forecast and it wouldn't be a good evening to come all the way here for me, and bring me home, so I said I would not be disappointed if she wouldn't come to get me. But just a little while ago, she emailed me that the concert has been postponed to Monday, so I'm hoping Monday evening's weather will be just right.  

It is still raining quite hard, it is cold outdoors, and freezing rain and sleet will be visiting us in a few hours. Very strange weather, this is, and more snowstorms are coming through and going on to the eastern coast, again! 

It makes me wonder what kind of summer we are going to have. Did you ever hear of this country having no summer one year, long ago? The weather was strange, very cold, no warmth for 'summertime'. I had read about it some years ago, and it IS possible that there might not be any summer to speak of, one of these years. 

Well, some chores are waiting; back to work I go. Don't forget your galoshes!

I'll see you at the Corner Post ...