Mother Nature was a bitch this weekend in Tennessee.
Yesterday we got hit with winds up to sixty miles per hour. Those winds then drove rain sideways. The power got knocked out at our little country church and we dismissed early because of no lights. Then on the way home I had to dodge fallen limbs in the road. When I got home the wind had blown off one of the shutters on the Medlock mansion. A number of the Bradford Pear trees and pine trees in the neighborhood lost large limbs.
Later I made a visit to our local home center to pick up some tall hibiscus for spring planting. They were in five gallon buckets and stood about three feet tall. As I was wheeling them on the little platform dolly to my truck the wind picked them up and blew them right off the dolly and sent them rolling down the parking lot. These were not lightweight plants. I'd guess maybe twenty to twenty-five pounds each. That's how strong the wind was.
Whatever front came through yesterday left us with cold weather this morning. It was in the forties, very cool for this time of year, and today it's only gotten to fifty-two degrees. It's darn chilly. Tomorrow the high is supposed to be seventy-eight. Go figure.
I'm not normally too nervous about bad weather but yesterday I was nervous. Things just didn't feel right. Even the air smelled funky and the air seemed unnaturally warm. I was thinking tornado and kept looking out the window. Sure enough I found out this morning there was a tornado on the ground yesterday about fifty miles away. Luckily it was brief and no one was hurt.
I think Mother Nature has calmed down now. She wasn't happy about something yesterday. And it showed.
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That storm has arrived here today. I am hoping we see mid seventies tomorrow but right now what is going on outside my window is a bit odd. I'm waiting for Dorothy and Toto to fly by. And a woman on a bicycle maybe too...
Posted by: Alecto at May 12, 2008 6:53:57 PM
wonder if your storm was the same one we had on Saturday? In Tulsa, we had 30-50 mile an hour winds, and east and southeast of Tulsa were 40 confirmed tornado touchdowns! 6 people died in OK and 12 in Missouri!
Posted by: katherine at May 13, 2008 1:21:58 PM
K, I'm sure it was one and the same.
Posted by: Lewis at May 14, 2008 2:40:49 PM
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