Raining again, Rich?..............
That is hardly the word for what just happened. Electricity just [miraculously] came back on. We had a "normal" thunderstorm this morning and some heavy rain. Maybe that was the leading edge of a frontal system. All that nasty wind yesterday had no storms to go with it, so maybe it was pre-frontal. Then, in spite of being cloudy, it wasn't a bad day (74 degrees, 10-15 mph wind). The forecast said we might have more thunderstorms this evening, but they would be over about 9 PM. Nothing happened, but just after I finished washing dishes and before I came downstairs, I saw distant lightning, maybe 20 miles south of us. No big deal, right? But the forecast said the storms would be over before they even started (stupid ass weather fucks!). About 10 PM, all hell broke loose.
Extremely severe thunderstorms, continuous lightning all around us, wind so nasty it was shaking the house (are we having a tornado???), then the power went out. I wasn't ready to go to sleep, but the storm woke Lannie up and she was seriously afraid, so we sat on the couch talking (flashlights so we didn't trip on cats). Finally, the storm moved east and Lannie went back to bed. I couldn't sleep yet, but went to bed anyway. What else could I do with no electricity, and if all that lightning took down several power poles, it might be days before we got power again. I was laying there, worrying about all the outside animals and whether or not the barns were still standing when the lights came back. So, OK, here I am. Sigh... This computer isn't working too well at the moment, and if power goes out again and I just don't answer your reply... well, that's life in South Dakota.