Ran a few simple errands yesterday as the sky darkened -- some kitty litter from the grocery, some take-out lunch for my wife and me, and mailing a magazine subscription. Humdrum. However, the sky became darker and darker in the menacing way it does. My last stop was in a parking lot within walking distance of a postal mail box, about two hundred feet way. I figured I would get there and back before anything happened with the weather. Bad choice. I'd just heard the envelop hit the bottom of the post box when the wind hit me like a wall, my hat blew off, and in a few seconds buckets of rain hit me and soaked through my clothes, literally seconds, and thunder and lightning and cracking limbs were all around me. I really considered it might be my time had come. The wind was circular. I actually grabbed my hat (my much loved MM cob hat!) which wasn't all that smart in terms of time, and fought my way back to my car, dragging in much water with me. This is the most direct personal assault from the weather I have experienced in fifty years, since a typhoon in the South China Sea on a minesweeper. I think it was a tornado trying to be born. The tornado didn't quite make it, so I did. Good to be here. Anyone else having weather adventures this week?
