Bi And Large

It's been a weird summer around here. Very dry, very cool. No rain - we've been like a foot behind in precipitation. And temps barely making it out of the 70's when normally we're in the 100's. Combined which means no severe weather, no thunderstorms, no hail, no tornadoes. I guess the no tornado thing is good, but I have sorely missed the thunderstorms. It isn't summer without them, and I love them. Actually I love the severe weather too, the warnings and watches, the blobs of red and purple moving across a map, the panicked newscasters breaking into TV programming, the greygreen sky churning and moving so fast.

So last night we were all hard at work trying to keep up with the 18gazillion chores we have to do this weekend when the sirens went off. First time this year, and it's almost the end of summer! We didn't get anything more than some heavy rain and didn't think twice about it. And this morning, here is today's news clip:

http://www.wcco.com/video/?id=64923@wcco.dayport.com

The liquor store that was decimated is about 7 miles from our house and the street they have a reporter on with all the downed trees is about 3 miles from our place.

Phew!