We need the rain

 I looked outside before raising the Kevlar® screen on the lanai. “Looks like rain,” I said aloud and decided not to raise the screen. I put my phone and e-reader on a lamp table and went into the kitchen to fix my breakfast. My phone rang just after I had a bowl, spoon and cereal box on the counter. I walked to the living room, arriving just as the ringing ended. A common thing, reaching the phone too late, when I walk unaided.

The screen had a message. This area is under a severe thunderstorm alert until 9:30 a.m. As write, the time is 9:19 a.m. Rain falls outside, a moderate rainfall. Certainly not a Texas rainfall and somebody in the house says, “Whooee! Would you listen to that!” Even when we went through the edge of a hurricane in 2018, it was no bigger than a good Texas thunderstorm.

“It’s going to rain,” I said to myself when reading the message. “Imagine that.”

One thing about Florida storms, you never know which direction one might come from. In Texas, most weather comes from the southwest. In winter, a double-c cold winter, storms sometimes come in from the north, occasionally from the east. Here in Florida, the weather God set thing up so weather can come in from any direction. Sometimes there will be a strong upper wind suddenly make a 90-degree turn. Weird. But, that’s Florida.

Rain has pretty much stopped now. But in the background I hear something that sounds like another wind and maybe some rain. The weather service hasn’t told me anything new, though.

Okay. 9:30. Rain’s gone. But I hear thunder.