01-20-2006, 04:51 PM
OK, now I've seen everything I could possibly see in a day's worth of weather:
7:30 a.m.: Left the house to go to the office. It's balmy for January. About 44 degrees. It's overcast, but nothing bad.
10:20 a.m.: Leave my office to walk across campus to teach a class. It's cooler than when I left the house, maybe 5 degrees or so, and raining.
11:30 a.m.: Leave the classroom in which I just taught. In an hour, the temperature has dropped at least another five degrees, and the ground is covered in sleet. It's still sleeting -- hard -- and it hurts like hell hitting me on the face walking back across campus.
12:15 p.m.: Left campus to go to lunch with my wife. The sleet has stopped. We decide to dine out at McDonald's with a couple of friends, where I proceed to educate everyone about Vonetta Flowers, who appears on our drink cups.
1:05 p.m.: We leave McDonalds. We knew it had been raining; what we didn't realize was that it had become a FREEZING rain. Our car doors and locks are frozen shut. It takes 10 minutes to pry them open.
1:15 p.m.: After much slipping and sliding, I drop my wife off at work. I call my son's school to see if they are dismissing early. The office secretary responds: "I wish." I drive home to work from my home office and park the car in the cozy, warm, dry garage.
3 p.m.: I am sitting here at my computer, working on multiple tasks at once, when, low and behold, I see this flash of light out of the corner of my eye. I think, "That's weird, what was that?" A few seconds later, I get my answer: A loud, booming clap of thunder.
3 p.m.-now: I sit here at my computer, staring out of the window more than I'm working. The snow is falling so hard I can't see the houses across the street. Thunder and lightning are frequent. It's like a thunderstorm, only with snow. I'm wondering if my son's school bus will make here with him alive.
It's the weirdest stuff I've ever seen......I better go get my Bible and see what the book of Revelation says about this.... [/i]
7:30 a.m.: Left the house to go to the office. It's balmy for January. About 44 degrees. It's overcast, but nothing bad.
10:20 a.m.: Leave my office to walk across campus to teach a class. It's cooler than when I left the house, maybe 5 degrees or so, and raining.
11:30 a.m.: Leave the classroom in which I just taught. In an hour, the temperature has dropped at least another five degrees, and the ground is covered in sleet. It's still sleeting -- hard -- and it hurts like hell hitting me on the face walking back across campus.
12:15 p.m.: Left campus to go to lunch with my wife. The sleet has stopped. We decide to dine out at McDonald's with a couple of friends, where I proceed to educate everyone about Vonetta Flowers, who appears on our drink cups.
1:05 p.m.: We leave McDonalds. We knew it had been raining; what we didn't realize was that it had become a FREEZING rain. Our car doors and locks are frozen shut. It takes 10 minutes to pry them open.
1:15 p.m.: After much slipping and sliding, I drop my wife off at work. I call my son's school to see if they are dismissing early. The office secretary responds: "I wish." I drive home to work from my home office and park the car in the cozy, warm, dry garage.
3 p.m.: I am sitting here at my computer, working on multiple tasks at once, when, low and behold, I see this flash of light out of the corner of my eye. I think, "That's weird, what was that?" A few seconds later, I get my answer: A loud, booming clap of thunder.
3 p.m.-now: I sit here at my computer, staring out of the window more than I'm working. The snow is falling so hard I can't see the houses across the street. Thunder and lightning are frequent. It's like a thunderstorm, only with snow. I'm wondering if my son's school bus will make here with him alive.
It's the weirdest stuff I've ever seen......I better go get my Bible and see what the book of Revelation says about this.... [/i]