Funny thing happened on the severe thunderstorm's way to Beautiful Downtown Maurine: it didn't make it.
Our forecast said we'd get thunderstorms, high winds, and rain (depending on which forecast) between 0.56 and 1.0 inches. The downrush wind started. When the wind hit about 60+ mph, I went out and took down the flag because the pole was bending so badly I thought it would snap (it is rated to withstand 100 mph, but was bent about 30 degrees). The temperature plummeted 20 degrees in a matter of minutes (really cold wind). I could see the whole western horizon lined with big nasty black clouds. Then the weird shit happened... about three miles west of our house, all those storms hit a huge invisible wall and instead of coming right over us as they should have, they all started slipping northward and missed us entirely.
Not one drop of rain today (as of this writing anyway). If someone told me this story, I would tell them they were full of shit because it just can't happen that way, but I saw it myself, and I am still having a hard time believing it. I watched the clouds sliding north like they had hit an impenetrable wall and I had just watched the doppler showing them moving due east. There was no reason for this (at least not one the maps could show). Weird... just fucking weird...