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.
