It started raining yesterday afternoon. It came down in buckets, so fast the ground couldn’t absorb it. Mild flooding started after a few hours and we kept a watchful eye on radar.
The thunder rolled and rolled and the lightning lit up everything like daylight. Great bolts of lightning streaked across the sky and it was quite the show to say the least.
Everyone remarked that they had never heard thunder like that before. We certainly hadn’t. It just kept coming without a break.
This storm lasted from yesterday afternoon until 3 a.m.. Even though we had gone to bed at our regular bedtime of around eleven, we were up numerous times checking local radar to see how much longer this could last. It just seemed to hover over us. The relentless thunder was the worst. We could pull our day-night shades and for the most part block out the bolts of lightning but the rolling thunder we just couldn’t get away from.
Our phones even sent us weather alerts.
So this morning after the ground having about four hours to soak up the rain this is what was left.
Bob’s sister Carol, her hubs Pat and two of their grandchildren are here. They arrived yesterday and got to enjoy the storm too. Doesn’t it figure the three year old would sleep through it?
So we were sitting outside of our place talking the afternoon away and this fella rides up on a bicycle into our yard and extends his hand to me and says, “I’ve been waiting a year and half to meet you.” I stood up and shook his hand and then he said, “Mike V_______.” I looked at him and repeated his name and then it made sense. MPV8439! Frequent reader! Yes, I knew who he was! It is just so wonderful to actually meet the people who read here, who follow our journey. Of course we had to have a picture taken.
Mike, you made my day, my week, oh heck, my summer! Thank you so much for looking us up and coming over so we could meet you.
We had seafood for dinner. Pat makes the best crab cakes and Carol spent hours making Clams Casino. I made potato salad and we had Grillin’ Beans. They even made extras for our freezer that we’ll get to enjoy later. Thank you Carol & Pat!
2 comments:
Nice meeting you and Bob. We had a good time at the beach and hope to see you two in our future travels.
That's so dad gum cool!!!
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