Fresh when it gets here from
Julie Barrett
Wednesday, July 11, 2007
No, that's not a band, it's today's weather. It wasn't supposed to rain today, but about 5:00 I heard thunder. Of course, it really got bad right at the time I had to leave the house. Here's the view from my windshield:
Wet
Right around that time I saw a huge bolt of cloud-to-ground lightning just a bit right of center beyond the trees. It turns out that it hit very near my destination. When I got to the major intersection (beyond the one you see in the picture - the lights there were flashing red in all directions) I had to wait while two fire trucks roared through. The first went to the DART tracks and stopped. The second went on through.
I got to the bowling center to find that most of the power was out. We stuck around until after 7:30 (league usually starts at 6:00) and decided to cancel the night's league. There's another league that comes in at 9:00 and it fills up the entire house. If we'd have started even as early as 8:00 the other league couldn't have started until 11:00. So we decided to give it up.
When I left there was still a squad car with its lights on near the DART tracks. The trains were running. I've be mad if they aren't running on Friday because ....
That's my next entry, folks.
Tags: Weather