September 20, 2005
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Thunderstorm
We had a aurprise thunderstorm yesterday.
Unpredicted, warm, moist air moved in from Mexico. The first sign of anything unusual was thunder in the afternoon. When I took some trash out, I was hit by half a dozen drops of rain. I thought that was the end of it.
Distant lightning continued through the afternoon, but we rarely saw it. We heard the thunder, though. By evening we were able to see the flashes of light.
The arthritis in my back started giving me problems early in the afternoon, even before we heard the first thunder. It kept me awake until, at 2:00 this morning, I heard a brief, heavy rainfall. Shortly after the rain hit, I was able to fall asleep.
My alarm went off at 6:00. As I was sitting on the edge of my bed, wondering if I would be able to go walking, we heard heavy rain start in. It again lasted only a short time, perhaps ten minutes, but I reset the alarm and went back to getting some much-needed sleep.
When I got up, at 8:00, the ground was dry and the sky was clearing.
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We have been having unusually heavy rains here and some out of season tornadoes. Some people in the Twin Cities have been without power for a week now. That seems like a very long time in a major city.