It's Always Darkest
It's always worse in the dark. Ann just left at 5:45 in the pitch black howling blowing rainswept darkness. The creek is up. Can't say how much til we get a little light, and not expecting much of that on this murky, Stygian morning. The lights have flickered briefly a few times already so I have a small flashight in my pocket. Oh--here's a new weather update:
WIDESPREAD...HEAVY...AND CONTINUOUS RAIN IS RESULTING IN SOME TREES BECOMING LOOSE IN THEIR SOIL. WINDS GUSTS OF ONLY 15 TO 20 MPH HAVE BEEN REPORTED DOWNING SOME TREES. IF YOU MUST BE OUTSIDE AS THE REMNANTS OF FRANCES PROGRESSES THROUGH THE REGION...BE ALERT FOR THE POSSIBILITY OF FALLING TREES.
The heaviest rain and wind is predicted for this afternoon. I plan to do what is essential at school, then get on home. By 4:00, I'll take the truck to the end of our little road and back, so when Ann calls, I can advise her--and maybe clear trees from the way before she starts home. The chainsaw will be a useful tool to travel with today. And I'll be wearing my rubber Muckboots to class and will carry a change of dry clothes, just in case. With a driving 30 mph wind on the open campus, I'm expecting a classroom full of drownded rats today. Well, maybe not FULL.
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Now that's scary. We get all kinds of weather warnings out here on the Lone Prairie, but I can't remember anything not directly Imminent Tornado-related that said anything about falling trees.
And I have a lot of trees on my tiny quarter-acre, too.
Posted by: CGHill | September 8, 2004 4:00 PM