When It Rains

It was back to work today for teachers here. Students return to classes next Monday. Sigh… no more watching cheesy marathons on SyFy or Chiller for me. Not that I really did that. Well, not every day. Some days USA had something better. Hah! Now I’m getting up at around the time I was getting to sleep. What a shock to the system! Hoo else is a night owl? Raise your wing.

Hurricane season is officially from the first of June till the end of November. Of course, they can really develop any time of the year, just more likely during these months. Anyway, it has been a very calm tropical storm season so far this year and then in just the last couple days we’ve had three [THREEE!] tropical depressions develop. Already one of them, Bill, has strengthened to hurricane status. But it’s way out in the Atlantic and might not make it to the US. Another one, Claudette, wound up to tropical storm status and has made landfall across the panhandle into Alabama. Poor Ana, the first named storm of the season, is still a tropical depression and may fall apart before it gets here. Or not. You never can tell for sure with these things.

But seriously, all this activity developed in just the last couple of days! It really hasn’t affected my weather here yet but I feel like we’re looking down the barrel of a gun again. A HUGE swirling, blowing, raining, storming, thundering, lightninginging… STORM gun. On the plus side, hurricanes can be good blog fodder!