Yeah, it's raining like crazy here but it's still warm outside. Weird. I heard some trees behind our house fell over, but they didn't fall this way so bully for us.
Gawd, I miss home.
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What's bred in the bone will not out of the flesh.
Howling winds--the kind which invert umbrellas and make walking a challenge--rake the metro area Thursday, gusting to 50 m.p.h.--a velocity at which damage can begin to occur. These gales are buffeting a vast region over which November's 2nd major storm, and easily its most intense, is draped. The same powerful updrafts which lift and cool inflowing Gulf moisture generating clouds and precipitation while producing low barometric pressures, also drive huge wind fields like Thursday's. Rain falls vigorously at times from Chicago east into Indiana Thursday. The range in precipitation totals across the metro area is likely to be stunning. Some sections of northern Indiana are likely to see 2-3" amounts while Chicago and its immediate western suburbs may measure 0.40" to 1.10". Farther west, amounts should decline rapidly.
In Central New York state we got torrential downpours. My backyard is one big puddle. A few trees down, power out in a couple places. Currently "robbers attack Auburn woman with crowbar" is higher on the news webpage than anything weather-related.
It's a trailor park. That's what they're there for.
Last night we got the coolest windstorm and torrential rain. There are no leaves left at all after last night on any of our trees. I havent been able to sleep well for the past week and it was enjoyable to listen to the wind screaming as I lay in bed counting the hours away.