TheBanyanTree: Dull, Boring and With a Meteorological Slant

[B Drummond]

Came down a doozy last night, a real frog drown'er, a gully "warsher", 
a thunderbooming, flashing,  hail-laden night of precipitation and 
house rattling meterological event.

And I loved every doggone minute of it.

Why do some  people love storms and some people hate them?

Come to think of it . . . hmmm . . .  why do some people love broccoli 
and some hate it, right?

When I check the stats on rainfall, temperatures and so forth in our 
area today I see that we have done an about face from the last few 
years.  We were in a 4 year drought going back 2 years ago.  We were 
having record high temperatures in the summer and now we've had below 
normal temperatures for the last year and a half.  We had above average 
rainfall last year and are at an above average rainfall point now 
again. Global warming proof is not happening here on this part of the 
globe.

My son and I made some rain gauges for his class science project 
recently.  Last night alone we recorded in homemade rain gauges almost 
more rain than Palm Springs, California has in a full year.  And the 
best thing was that we had just had the shingles replaced that had torn 
loose from storms last December.   The feeling engendered listening to 
the rain pour down and knowing that those formerly worrisome areas of 
the roof were no longer a source of anxiety,  even in the hard, driving 
rains we are having this year,  was ineffable.

Credence Clearwater Revival sang, "Who'll stop the rain?"

And today it makes me want to say,

"Hold on there, buddy, don't get in such a hurry.  Let 'er rip a little 
longer.

Sit down and write a song about sunshine on your shoulder in the 
interim,
while them two atoms of hydrogen bound together with one of oxygen
decide to cease dropping from the sky.  I think they know what they're 
doing better
than you.

They've been practicing their craft a heck of a lot longer than you 
have yours."




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