Friday, January 10, 2020

Crazy Storm



Texas is big and so is its weather. When it's hot it's really hot, like an oven. When it storms it really storms and that's what happened tonight. We were at the Four Seasons, no, not that one, this is a different place, the one next to Internet, Sweepstakes, Fun Time, then crash, down came the rain. 




You could hear it pounding on the roof above the stained acoustic tile drop ceiling while sheet lightning lit up the sky beyond the Seasons' barred windows. There it was, our Old Enemy the Weather venting its fury like a thwarted Presidential Candidate falling on Mook with outstretched talons. 

The ride home down a black ribbon of half-submerged asphalt was dramatic enough but uneventful, I took it slow and so did everyone else. Smart, who wants to hydroplane in a near zero viz stormfront?




Still, it was good to get back to the Compound. I set up on the porch as lightning arced across the sky, rain sheeted down and tornado warnings flashed on the phone screen. Thunder's rocking the house now, Elite Hotel's playing on the jukebox.

Will anything be left of this town tomorrow, will it be washed away like so many futile Bloomberg millions in Virginia? Only time, and a new dawn, will tell. 




For now, we stand to, cleaning weapons, sharpening kukris, loading magazines and throwing last year's broken furniture on the fire.

#2A,

LSP

14 comments:

Ed Bonderenka said...

Evocative post, both scribed and audibly.

RHT447 said...

Not long after, we got the same as it moved north, plus a tornado warning. I've always like Robert Duval's line in "Open Range'. "Well if it don't, there'll be fishin' on Main Street by mornin'.

Adrienne said...

While you're buried in rain, we're buried in snow. Thank goodness it's not as bad as last year. It hopefully will be gone in a few days - or not. Who knows?

LL said...

I would have felt a lot more comfortable with your post if it had been a snow storm to combat global warming. After all, we paid a lot of taxes under Barack to do that.

Jim said...

Yesterday we had the rain. Last night it was freezing rain. Snow is coming and expected to arrive shortly so it appears I'll be cabin bound until tomorrow when it's supposed to warm up again. Might as well clean that 6.8 SPC upper I assembled and tested. It works great by the way. I need a kukri.

Kid said...

The weather in the Phoenix area was like that. Hot and boring then the dust storms in April, then the random downpour usually in summer. July is called the monsoon season because it is usually cloudy in July. I always enjoyed the extreme, but not deadly weather out there.

Cincinnati? Well it is 11-Jan-2019 and it is 63 outside. I'll take that all day long.

LSP said...

Thanks, Ed. It was quite a storm.

LSP said...

And snow today, RHT. Brrr.

LSP said...

Adrienne, I love the snow and find it exciting. Of course the novelty tends to ear off after a month or two or three.

Speaking of which, it's freezing here in Texas. Pan to hordes of shivering Mexicans, and me!

LSP said...

Ah yes, LL. The snow fell this morning, so balance is restored and the climate saved. Thank God Austin paid its tax!

LSP said...

Jealous of that 6.8, Jim.

LSP said...

I'm with you, Kid. Saying that, a bit of snow's exciting to me, we had maybe a millimeter this morning.

LSP said...

And Jim, this might work for your -- reforged leaf spring:

https://www.amazon.com/EGKH-Genuine-Gurkha-Kukri-Knife/dp/B00J0T476A/ref=pd_bxgy_200_img_3/135-6984959-9719649?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_i=B00J0T476A&pd_rd_r=94dafa40-e772-448f-ad01-171379c9ac67&pd_rd_w=PRShR&pd_rd_wg=nm1IS&pf_rd_p=09627863-9889-4290-b90a-5e9f86682449&pf_rd_r=DM5MEHP2M1TZSTT5FT78&psc=1&refRID=DM5MEHP2M1TZSTT5FT78

Then again, you can search trough the "antique blades" lists and find something real -- mind you, the issue kukris tend to be tiny. Gurkhas tend to have small hands!

Jim said...

Thanks, and no worries. I'm not a very large guy myself. Jealous of the 6.8? Build yourself an upper. That's what I did. Of course now I'll have to assemble another lower so the Grendel doesn't have to share.