Two counts of FYI

[slipjig3]

First: When you step outside the current level of precipitation is less than expected, keep your cakeflap shut. Don't be like Adam the Spam-for-Brains here:
Me: [noting the light drizzle] Oh, that's not too bad. I've seen worse.
Sky: *cues torrential downpour*
Me: Um...
Sky: *sends lightning strike just for the hell of it*
Me: Gahhh! *runs for car like an otter on speedballs*
Remember, kids, God thinks hubris is funny.

Second: Two kids + ginormous leaf pile = best cardio workout EVER.

Comments

[mgrasso.livejournal.com]

Whoa. Yeah, it's actually quite loud for city thunder. Nothing like that mighty rollin-cross-the-plains thunder we got out in IL.

[slipjig.livejournal.com]

Oh, amen, brother. People on the East Coast don't seem to understand when I talk about Illinois thunder being a different beast.

[mgrasso.livejournal.com]

One night, when I was a little kid in our cottage in Maine, I was awoken by what sounded like all the world to be the end of the world. As a paranoid, precocious kid, the first thing I thought was "nuclear war." It was a thunderstorm. I'll never forget that; it was the first "country thunder" I'd ever heard.