Slam

[stoutfellow]

Yesterday... wow. This whole area just got hammered. There was just a thin line of storms, stretching northeast-southwest, but moving northeast; it took hours for them to pass. A tornado touched down briefly in Collinsville, just a few miles south of here, and there were others elsewhere. Here, there were intervals of almost continual thunder; Ben, Murphy, and I gathered in a central area, where I stroked and spoke soothingly to them. There were a couple of microblackouts, no more than fifteen seconds each.

I like thunderstorms, actually, but I like them best the way we had them in Tucson. The city sits in a bowl of mountains, and the storms pass around, walking along the ridges but not entering the city.

Comments

[mmegaera.livejournal.com]

I'm glad you didn't get tornadoed! You guys have been having one heck of a spring, haven't you?

[stoutfellow.livejournal.com]

It's been interesting, yes.

Today the weather is roughly late-July quality, hot and muggy. I really need to do some yardwork - the rain has encouraged my garden of weeds - but I'm not going out there today.

[mmegaera.livejournal.com]

I'll take about fifteen of your degrees, although you can keep the humidity as we have plenty of our own. The highs here have been in the mid-50s lately. We've been flirting with record low highs for the last few days [sigh].

Too chilly and rainy isn't all that amenable for yard work, either.

[filkferengi]

"Behold" your thunderstorms come "leaping upon the mountains, skipping upon the hills"? [weg]