Really. Then, why did my phone alarm go off at 1:08 am??? Yeah, another storm. I could say, "This isn't typical for this time of year," but the weather isn't typical anywhere these days. "These days?" you ask, "What are you, a hundred years old?" Feels like it... at 1:08 in the middle of the night... when I was sound asleep at 1:07.
We had been watching the incoming weather before we went to bed - thunderstorms, wind gusts to 70 mph, heavy rain, and hail were impacting the upper valley. We took down our flag and covered the patio furniture before we went to bed. Watched more of the local weather (that stayed on the air) before turning over to go to sleep.
And then the alarm. Of course, we both got up and checking outside, it was obviously the calm before the storm. We turned on a TV again, and the local weather was still staying on the air - the worst of it was over for the upper Valley, and now impacting the lower Valley (closer to the coast). With reports of "half dollar size hail," we decided to put down the hurricane shutters on the north side of the house. Then, the gust front, followed by rolling thunder, and pounding rain. The hail reports were now south of us. The storm was fast moving, and by 2:15, we were on the back side of it. You know it is a done deal when the local weather weasels turn it back to regular programming.
Back to bed.
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