elanya

Woke up in the middle of the night last night and couldn't figure out why. True, my allergy drugs had worn off (although I somehow managed to find my ood ones while I was stumbling around in the dark, depite the fact that i hadn't found them when I was looking before bed), but tht shuldn't have been enough, and did explain the sort of nervous energy.

No, that would have been the EPIC THUNDERSTORM that hit this morning. I was woken by my alarm, but finally got out of bed when there was a thunderclap so loud it sounded like a tree across the street had exploded! (It had not, unless it is in the park somewhere). Taking J out was a treat of soshing through ankle deep puddles and run off at the intersection to cross the street. She gets stupidly hyper in storms, also, and has been running around the house with her new squeaky toy, being an adorable pest. I need to call and see if her dogbuddy still wants her to come over or not :x I'm betting on no, though :/

It is still raining, which means the buildings at work may get flooding too, whee! I must remember to bring extra shorts and socks, or something :x

And I spilled tea on my foot -_- (not burnt though, hooray).

Gonna be an interesting day! I do love the rain here though - storms are so impressive.

Well, it looks pretty clear out there right now, but they're calling for possible rain and snow this morning, and snow this afternoon with an accumulation of up to two inches o_O 90% chance of precipitation, even!

We'll see - I have doubts :x

I'm gonna wear boots just in case though.

I knew that the sky would errupt this evening. I could tell from how Jola was acting on our walk. She's a great weather predictor - storms get her sooo excited! It was a fantastic thunderstorm (and it is still raining), but I do have a few related wishes:

a: that it could have held off for another 3-5 min, so we could be done with out walk without the slight soaking.

b: that I had thought to close my windows after I got home, before my ivy got blown off the sill (WIND!), and a bunch of my books got wet, and before there was a giant puddle on my dining room floor -_-

Good times, anyway :)

IT'S MOTHERFUCKING SNOWING AGAIN!!!!!
:D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D

IT'S MOTHERFUCKING SNOWING!!!!!!!!!

:D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D

Well, not *only* happy maybe, but Jola loves this kind of thing.

Which is why when I got up this morning and considered that she was going to need to go out to at least pee, I may as well go whole hog. So I crammed myself into my East German military surplus foul weather gear and, so suited, took her for a slightly abbreviated walk along our normal route.
she was having a grand time leaping in puddles, carrying around wind blown branches and rolling in wet grass. I managed to stay completely dry save for a stray lock of hair, but I wish I had worn a hat to keep the rain out of my eyes. Also now I smell like plastic and my skin is dry and itchy, but this can be easily remedied.

It was fun times! We didn't see anyone else out walking, though the Baptist church on Southwest had taken in evacuees, and some were standing under the overhang there, possibly smoking. There were a few cars out on the roads, though. The creek in the park is overspilling its banks, which was fun to ford. We saw a flock of grackles but no other wildlife. If I take her out again this afternoon, I'll see if my 'all weather' camera is up to the challenge :) And remember to wear a hat.

I quite enjoy this kind of weather too, though I admit to still being a little sleepy. I was up until after four - we had a hurricane party over at a friend's place, though of course it didn't actually start raining until we were leaving ;)

I obviously still have power and internets, and there's no other consequences to date. Wind is mostly from the north, and I only have one teeny north facing window. I will second cheez_ball's assessment and say that the storm passed to the east of us, however I did check on the radar. Really, though, it has rained harder here just in the course of a normal storm. I think the main differences are that this is gog to last longer and it is windier. Wooh!

Time to get dressed and find some breakfast. Maybe I'll make pancakes....

it is looking like we may get more out of Ike than i was expecting tomorrow - at the least it will be hella stormy, and I should expect to lose power. So if I'm not around, that's why :V

I thik I'm pretty well prepared though! I'm going to cook a bunch of rice casserole later though - it will keep and I can eat it cold if I lose power for too long.

It is raining pretty hard this morning, so i haven't taken Jola out. However, she went back to sleep when I brought her in. I should have followed her example, I think :V last night she was super duper cuddly and came and laid down with her head on my feet, so i sat on the floor with her for a bit as I listened to some magnetic fields before bed. A good night, I think!

Now I need to finish an e-mail, get dressed, and go in to work... Except I know my boss won't be around until the afternoon,and this new couch is soooo comfy....

WTH is today's weather!

a high of 72f/22c and a low of 34F/1C?

Seriously! o_O

In addition to my comment earlier today about the crazy weather - tonight we had a thunder, lightning, and sleet storm. I just saw some more lightening, too. Madness. Yup, there's the thunder!