May 10, 2007
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Amazing how the weather can change on a dime!
I just went to SuperTarget, which is less than two miles away. Was inside perhaps 5-7 minutes.
When I approached the exit, I was more than astonished to see rain. Not just rain....what a tepid word...but RAIN. It was a downpour! A gullywasher! A frog strangler!
Nothing to give a clue that was about to happen when I parked and went in. Some clouds around, but that's all. Waited for a few minutes until it let up some and hastened to the van and drove home.
Where the streets and sidewalks are bone dry, with just a light sprinkle of rain falling.
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There's the old saying (which I suspect is not really limited to this region), "Don't like the weather in Erie? Wait five minutes!"
To which I always like to amend, "Or drive half a mile!" I don't know what would do it in FW, but here, the lake causes a lot of volatility and local variability in weather. Thankfully, it's all on a pretty small scale -- "volatility" only very rarely means something like a tornado.
Ha! We say the precise same thing.
This was just one of those abrupt, spotty afternoon rainstorms. Now the radar shows us to be clear but it looks like Kirstin up in Keller is getting a strong thunderstorm, based upon the colors on the radar in her area. =8^o
And here I thought Michigan was the only place where that happened. My exact-same experience was at WalMart. I got soaked on the way to the car. It was dry when I got home - also about two miles away. Were I a patient person such as you, Anne, I coulda waited in the store about five minutes and saved myself a lot of grief. But no ...
I'm able to exhibit such remarkable patience and restraint due to a cell phone with solitaire on it.
Had I not had that available, I promise I'd have been a soppy, soggy mess indeed.
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