Wither the weather?

[rolanni]

The tornado never materialized, which is Just as Well. It has been raining now and then, sometimes quite heavily, as the supersaturated sky gives up its extra moisture. I'm not sure that the pot tomatoes Steve planted are going to survive the exigencies of the day.

I spent the evening since coming home catching up on paperwork, clearing the decks for an all-weekend run at Fledgling. There's some heavy rewriting to be done in the mid-to-latter portions and I'd really like to be through the worst of that before we leave for Denver in -- eep! -- ten days.

Part of my paperwork was the recording of Saltation donations. We have now placed 777 copies, leaving but a scant 423 yearning for a home.

Everybody stay dry.

Comments

[otaku-tetsuko.livejournal.com]

We had it on Wednesday in PA - I was just getting ready to leave work and the thunder started and the flash/bangs were nearly simultaneous - suddenly, the view out the window went from darkening sky to WHITE, as the wind came roaring past, full of hail the size of quarters! I've never seen such fury in my life - the storm raged for the longest six or eight minutes of my life as I raced from window to window to see what was happening, then I went to the first floor to check in with Steven and he told me the front door was literally ripped off it's hinge! He was soaked to the skin from the minute or so it took him to wrestle it shut. Within five more minutes, it was "just raining" and you'd never know the previous scene had happened, if not for the door and a few trees now leaning drunkenly against their cousins in the parking lot...

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

We had it on Wednesday in PA

What's with PA nowdays? We got caught in a fierce thunderstorm just outside of Hershey last Friday on our way down to Maryland. Luckily, we were parallel to the entrance of a rest area as the first wave swept across the interstate and Steve pulled us in. We initially came to rest under a tree, but a downburst hit and branches started coming at us, so we moved -- carefully -- across the lot (between a pair of those artful aluminum street lights that were swinging so hard in the wind I'd thought they were going to break). Between the rain, thunder and lightning, it was hard to understand what was going on, and all I kept thinking was, "We're mostly fine, now, but if this beast has calved a twister, we are so toasted and served with butter."

Eight minutes later, the sun was out, and we could see the carnage -- mostly downed branches, though half a tree did come down between two parked cars on the side of the lot that we had quit...

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

Does "777" go one better on "666"?

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

Does "777" go one better on "666"?

...well, a hundred better, anyway...