Post by papaof2 on Jul 31, 2018 19:09:42 GMT -6
There are thunderstorms in the daily forecasts for the next week or two (how many days varies from one forecast to another ;-)
Yesterday's thunderstorm sneaked in while I was taking a break between the 45 minute riding mower session for the back and side lots and the usual 45+ minute session for the front (smaller but takes longer because of slowing to run the edges of the flower bed and around the trees). Having experienced one afib episode when I was under a lot of stress and let myself get dehydrated, work on hot days gets broken into reasonable blocks of time with regular rest stops. I had just sat down with some electrolyte beverage when my wife said "It's raining. Hard! Do you want a raincoat?" No raincoat, as even the seat on the riding mower will be a small pool with rain this hard. I got the mowers under cover and myself soaked in a very few minutes ;-) The grass was too wet to try to finish today so I've mostly been lazy.
The lucking out? Today's thunderstorms had some serious lightning and I kept expecting hits on the power but all the damage was 20 miles west of us (one substation with 700+ meters out) and 20 miles east of us (more than a thousand meters out). So far we've had something over 1/2 inch of rain which is minor when there are reports of 4 inches of rain within 50 miles of us. Yeah, we lucked out.
Yesterday's thunderstorm sneaked in while I was taking a break between the 45 minute riding mower session for the back and side lots and the usual 45+ minute session for the front (smaller but takes longer because of slowing to run the edges of the flower bed and around the trees). Having experienced one afib episode when I was under a lot of stress and let myself get dehydrated, work on hot days gets broken into reasonable blocks of time with regular rest stops. I had just sat down with some electrolyte beverage when my wife said "It's raining. Hard! Do you want a raincoat?" No raincoat, as even the seat on the riding mower will be a small pool with rain this hard. I got the mowers under cover and myself soaked in a very few minutes ;-) The grass was too wet to try to finish today so I've mostly been lazy.
The lucking out? Today's thunderstorms had some serious lightning and I kept expecting hits on the power but all the damage was 20 miles west of us (one substation with 700+ meters out) and 20 miles east of us (more than a thousand meters out). So far we've had something over 1/2 inch of rain which is minor when there are reports of 4 inches of rain within 50 miles of us. Yeah, we lucked out.
