WAITING FOR THE STORM

Partly cloudy with temperatures rising towards the upper 70s. Winds ESE at 5 to 10 mph.

I love thunderstorms and so does my daughter. We love to sit on the front porch and watch as they approach and then run in the house when the wind whips the rain around so much that sitting on the porch isn't possible without getting wet. Usually though we can sit huddled on the porch through the whole thing. Our storms usually approach from the west. I would love to have a more clear view to the west but there are so many trees we can only see down the street.

Yesterday they predicted thunderstorms in the late afternoon and I was so excited I might be home in time to sit and watch. I had taken my cousin and her husband to the airport at 1:30 and it was still sunny so I new I had enough time to get home. I waited for the storm, my husband came home from work and we had dinner, I waited for the storm, we went to visit my daughter's cat to see if she was all set with food and water, my daughter is away again in CT, I waited for the storm, I played a game of Scrabble with my neighbor, not on the front porch tonight, too hot, I waited for the storm, I waited for the storm, I crawled into bed exhausted, I waited for the storm, I heard from my daughter via a text message that she was safe and sound back in her hotel room after a two hour drive to CT and a long day at work, I waited for the storm, I started to doze off, THEN THE STORM!! It was a strange sort of storm. Coming at us directly from the north. I guess not too unusual considering weather all around the globe has been unpredictable. I have an i phone so I can click on the weather site and check the Doppler radar and I watched that storm approach. All the windows were closed in the house because the AC was on but I just had to open the window in the bedroom to listen to the sounds of the thunder and the crackling of the lightening. I must have been tired because in the past if a storm approached during the night I would still run downstairs to the porch and sit and watch, last night I watched from the bed. I fell asleep to the sound of the distant thunder.