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We had a pretty impressive storm last night.

I was happily chatting with Dave last night when I noticed something flashing outside. Opening the door, I saw some really impressive lightening in the distance. The flashes were so close together it seemed like daylight (only slightly stroby.)

I stood there, being impressed, when Jaws stood up to sniff around outside the screen door. I couldn't hear any thunder (yet), but Jaws made the most piteous sound I've ever heard her make. It was sort of the "I have to cough up a hairball" sound crossed with a "Good lord, don't stick me in the box again" sound. She got all hunched down, like she was being pressed down from above, and ran right under the coffee table.

(I thought she was scared of the storm. Now, in retrospect, I think she might have been afraid of something else...)

Heeding my cat's distress, I turned on the TV. The news stations were all alive with reports, since a large storm meant that they got to use their fancy-schmancy Doppler radar that cost them millions and millions of dollars. The huge flashing red blob just to my west caught my attention. I quickly logged off my computer and shut it down.

The storm was pretty good. It moved at about 60mph, and we got lots of rain, some hail, and high winds. It blew itself out fairly quickly, though, until all that was left was the lightening.

I watched the bolts go streaking across the sky. It had stopped raining, and I was waiting for the lightening to pass before turning my computer back on. The TV droned on it the background, unnoticed, until...

"We've just received a report that there was an earthquake about five minutes ago, centered in ..."

Earthquake?

It was a tiny little quake. The epicenter was about 25 miles from me, and I didn't feel anything - or if I did, I thought it was thunder rumbling the floorboards. Now I think that's what Jaws was frightened by, since she's never mewled like that at thunderstorms before.

Random Snippets

Obi-wan Kenobi is dead.

There is an SUV with Manitoba plates parked next to my car in the parking lot tonight.

My sunflower is on the verge of blooming.

Meatloaf is good as leftovers, too.

If you're very quiet and standing in an empty garage in the evening, you can hear a sputzie flap its wings.