Rain Rain Go Away!

You did not hear from me yesterday because the storm we had knocked the computer out. 

We had warnings all day on the TV but still Joann went into town.  Bill was upstairs, he'd just come home from his Volunteer job. 

In addition to the thunder and the flash of lightning I could see around my apartment, there was a popping noise which sounded like a giant popcorn popper. 

My phone rang and even though I don't like to answer it when there is an electrical storm such as we were having, I did and it was Bill.  He wanted to know if I had looked out to see the hail that was coming down. 

Well, I don't go near the doors when there is a storm but he said "you gotta see this, the hail is as big as a quarter!" 

When I opened the door, the hail was beating against the storm doors but it no longer sounded like popcorn popping, with me standing in the doorway it sounded like a gun shot. 

As soon as I saw that the hail was in fact as big as a quarter, I closed the doors and got away from it pronto.

Then the phone rang again.  It was Bill again.  But this time he told me Joann was OK and that she would wait out the storm in the shopping center parking lot.  She finally got home about an hour later. 

After I got off the phone with Bill for the second time, the TV went blank and the power went off.  But the good news is the power came back and the TV was working in time for the game last night which my Rays won.

It has rained all day today until about an hour ago.  It is now 3:40 PM and the sun is shining brightly.  They say on TV the storm is moving south so look out my Florida friends, it's a whopper. 

Bill scooped up some of the hail and put it in the freezer to show James when he gets up here for Father's Day. 

Veronica can't make it, she has to work.  

There will be no patio sitting today - maybe tomorrow.

 Love and prayers from here to there