The long drought is over!*
We’re having thunder and lightning and wind and heavy rain right now, and you all know what that means: our Internet connectivity could be flushed away without warning at any moment. So if we disappear from view for a while, you’ll know why.
It could also be full of sound and fury, but signifying nothing — you just never know.
| * | Residents of the Piedmont and coastal areas in these parts understand the irony in that statement. We haven’t gone more than 36 hours without rain in the past two months. The rivers are swollen and the ground is sodden. We’ve had at least fifteen inches (40 cm) of rain since the beginning of September, which is probably four times the average for the whole month.
I can’t imagine what those folks in coastal South Carolina are going through right now. |
These satellite images give one a view of some of the catastrophe. I think I’ll quit whining about my once-lovely zinnias.
https://www.businessinsider.com/hurricane-florence-damage-in-satellite-images-2018-9#as-this-image-of-cartersville-shows-farmland-and-fields-were-drenched-agricultural-losses-are-expected-to-total-well-over-1-billion-5
An early Christmas brought by Donder and Blitzen, along with the rest of the rain-deer. You wouldn’t mind sharing a bit of your weather with the west coast, we’re dry as the proverbial bone here.