Great storm last night

We only wish it hadn't begun at the exact moment we were getting ready for bed. No tornadoes, just some extraordinary thudner and lightning. One of the neighbors must have lost a spooked dog, because we heard someone calling out for something/someone. I would NOT have wanted to be wandering around in that rain -- or maybe hail. Whatever it was, it sounded like big, hard drops of wet. The precipitation was actually hitting our bedroom window, so it had to have been raining more or less horizontally.

We've got a wind advisory until 7pm today, winds gusting up to 45mph. There seem to be a lot of wind advisories out here. That, and Fog Alerts, with much greater frequency than either of us is used to. If it's not snow, it's got to be something, I imagine.

I found this link about Delaware County's tornado history. You'll have to scroll down just a screen or two to get to the Delaware County listing. (All the weather stats I looked at seemed to only go through 1995.) Local legend has it that the Indians built Muncie at this particular site along the White River because they believed a tornado wouldn't cross such a bend in the river. We hope they were right!

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Anonymous said…

Gee, Sunday was pretty nice here in CNY. I did get a little sunburned umphiring a couple of softball games. And let me tell you that I'm not the spring chicken I used to be, my back and tighs are killing me.

Root for UCLA tonight. If they win, I win the basketball pool at school

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