Our Storm

Yesterday, right in the middle of Natasha's Open House, the sky got very dark, very fast and a storm blew in from the West. They almost never come from this direction and when they do, we almost always get water leaking in through the front door. No need to show you the sopping wet door rug nor the old work towels used to pick up the water showing it happened again.

Today as I was driving to work, I noticed the neighbors at the first left intersection had lost one of their remaining Bradford Pear branches - it was all over the driveway and I couldn't tell if it had come down on their cars or not. You can see by the older wood, they lost a main trunk branch a couple of years ago, but the lateral branches were spared and the tree was making a come back.

I learned on the weather report this morning that we had 2/3rd's inch of rain in 30 mintues. You can tell how it was beating down in waves (this is the sheltered side of the house!) that we had the infamous down drafts described. We were under a tornado watch for half an hour, but none materialized. Plenty of tossing and turning in the older trees - and plenty of rain. The power went out but just for seven minutes. We were lucky.

Parts of Montgomery County are still out, including the intersection at the top of the hill. I thought the stalled traffic meant an accident, but it was just two policemen trying to direct rush hour traffic on a road that handles 180,000 cars each direction during the day.