Hunkered down, hatches battened
Aug. 19th, 2008 01:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wordinistaSo. Much. RAIN.
I've actually been... sort of productive, in the writerly sense, which is nice, even if my head is still a bit hurty from yesterday's migraine. I'm sitting by the window, watching the trees bend and their boughs rustle. The rain isn't quite horizontal, though still blowing past at a forty-five degree angle. Our neighbor across the canal hasn't mowed his back yard in a few weeks (to be fair, it's a pretty horrible slope down to the canal -- even we only have ours mowed every two weeks), but the grass is so long that it's rippling as the wind blows, which is almost soothing to watch. I love rainstorms, and... I actually don't mind tropical storms, for the most part.
Hurricanes are different; the tension gets ratcheted up, higher and higher, as we watch projected paths and five-day forecasts, wondering when it's going to hit and how hard and did you buy enough water and batteries and non-perishables? You wait through a hurricane, sometimes without electricity, and wonder how long it's going to take to pass. You wonder about the damage, about the electricity and when it's going to come back on. You listen to the wind blow, and you think, "Wow, I never heard the house make that sound before."
Tropical storms aren't quite as... tense. The power flickered a bit, but the only inconvenience has been waiting for breaks in the rain to take the dogs out.
Well, that and the tornado warnings.
I've actually been... sort of productive, in the writerly sense, which is nice, even if my head is still a bit hurty from yesterday's migraine. I'm sitting by the window, watching the trees bend and their boughs rustle. The rain isn't quite horizontal, though still blowing past at a forty-five degree angle. Our neighbor across the canal hasn't mowed his back yard in a few weeks (to be fair, it's a pretty horrible slope down to the canal -- even we only have ours mowed every two weeks), but the grass is so long that it's rippling as the wind blows, which is almost soothing to watch. I love rainstorms, and... I actually don't mind tropical storms, for the most part.
Hurricanes are different; the tension gets ratcheted up, higher and higher, as we watch projected paths and five-day forecasts, wondering when it's going to hit and how hard and did you buy enough water and batteries and non-perishables? You wait through a hurricane, sometimes without electricity, and wonder how long it's going to take to pass. You wonder about the damage, about the electricity and when it's going to come back on. You listen to the wind blow, and you think, "Wow, I never heard the house make that sound before."
Tropical storms aren't quite as... tense. The power flickered a bit, but the only inconvenience has been waiting for breaks in the rain to take the dogs out.
Well, that and the tornado warnings.
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Date: 2008-08-19 06:24 pm (UTC)Been in aplenty tornadoes, though.
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Date: 2008-08-19 06:41 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2008-08-19 06:40 pm (UTC)PS: Glad you're not driving in his? ;)
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Date: 2008-08-19 09:03 pm (UTC)PS: I suppose. :)
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Date: 2008-08-19 09:09 pm (UTC)Hee. Careful~~ -- they're now saying that Fay is going to head out to the Atlantic, grow to hurricane strength, and come back. I guess she's looking for Hurricane Spike, iunno. XD
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