Thursday, August 09, 2007

A Tad Bit Warm

What can I say? It's hot. Africa hot.

Actually, it is the humidity that's killing me. But the heat makes for some unstable weather.

Working right at the lake, you see some wild weather come and go. Last week it was biblical storms. 60mph winds. Hail. 5" of badly needed rain - but in a 90 minute period. Roads were flooded...traffic diverted. Street signals knocked out. It was every man for himself - or so I heard.

Me? I walked up the street and went to a bar with a few people from work. It was easier to drink beer and wait it out. Beer helps everything.

Two days ago at 9:00a it was pitch black out. I don't mean that it was 'like pitch black...'....if you looked out your window you would have sworn it was 10p on a moonless night. There might have been wind - or rain for that matter. You couldn't see. Jon told me to take a pic with my cellphone, but there was no use.....I could have taken a picture of a piece of black construction paper for the same effect.

Apparently there was over 3" of rain in less than 60 minutes. Once again, flooded roads and the like. Flash floods I guess. People climbing out their sun/moon roofs to escape being trapped in their automobiles (say that last word like Long Duck Dong).

In both instances, my parents who live maybe 25 miles aways never got a drop of the badly needed precipitation. We're slated for more of the same every day for the rest of the week. It is cool to watch the lightening from the 25th floor.

But right now, I just sitting here........sweating. Always sweating. Pretty - ain't it?

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