Last night, we finally got the deluge we've been needing. It would have been nice if it had come down a little gentler though. Not that I don't love a good, raging storm, but it brought down quite a few trees...or rather quite a few large tree limbs...in the park. We also had to repair two large sections of our fence this morning. After walking through the park this morning, we realized we weren't too bad off...some of our neighbors were missing entire lengths of fencing including the support posts! Here are some additional impressions from last night:
Cool - Watching the storm roll in during our evening walk and being dazzled by amazing bolts of lightning followed immediately by deafening claps of thunder.
Scary - Looking out the living room window and seeing the wind whip the limbs of the live oak next to our house so violently that they almost wrap around our front porch.
Amazing - Grape size hail...and our scramble to move Stepan's car into the garage.
Scary - Watching our newly planted trees being blown nearly parallel with the ground (thankfully, they all survived with little apparent damage).
Cool - Loosing power twice and playing cribbage by candlelight.
Frustrating - Loosing power twice while recording the four episodes of my current favorite show (Stargate: SG-1 on the SciFi channel) that air every Monday.
Posted by jfer at August 12, 2003 10:54 AMCool - Having a cool enough temperature in August to sleep with the window open.
Kinky - Only becoming aware the next day that the fence outside said open window had been blown down the evening before...
Disgusting - Watching Homer devour a snake that had drowned during the storm.
Posted by: stepan on August 12, 2003 2:01 PMStepan...You've summed up Jenny's entry quite well. What else is left to say? :)
Posted by: Theresa on August 12, 2003 9:32 PMWhat storm? Oh yeah, I am in NYC we had very lovely weather here. However, I too love a good storm. It lends excitement to an otherwise boring existence.
Posted by: mom on August 12, 2003 11:50 PMRita - here you are in NYC hobnobbing with the rich and famous and you talk about your "otherwise boring existence"!
Posted by: cynthia on August 14, 2003 7:53 AM