eponymous_rose

Ooh, quite a nutty storm last night. One of my roommates spotted a massive funnel cloud that would've spawned a devastating wedge tornado if it'd touched down (right in the middle of the city, too!). I saw some funky skies and something that I suspect could've been a wall cloud, but nothing too alarming. The temperature dropped ten degrees in a matter of minutes. Yay!

The storm passed pretty quickly and uneventfully, but it completely messed with our TV reception and so I've been given the mission of, um, obtaining the household's shows for that evening. Heehee.

Closer to midnight, though, there was a second storm. And all of a sudden, my right knee (the one with two metal screws still in it) started hurting like crazy. Sure enough, zap! The next bolt of lightning was a bright orange instead of white, and there was an explosion less than a block away and we were without power for three hours. Which was, y'know, sort of nice, because there's a bright ol' streetlight right outside my bedroom window. However, the death of my little fan made matters considerably worse. Ick.

Anyway, it's good to know that I've got these weather-forecasting-via-achy-joints thing going this early on. Seems to me that sort of thing's an asset for an aspiring meteorologist! :D (Also, I can do the senile thing rather well now. "Dadgum it, my knee's acting up again! Rain's a'coming!")

I should probably go to work, the better to present my seventy-plus paper-ready graphs!