Incoming!
Lightning to the right of me, lightning to the left of me, lightning in front and behind me rumbled and thundered – all night long.
Mobile and Pensacola got a lot more rain [about two feet] than we did, but we will close out April with 7 times our normal rainfall. All of the local rivers and streams are flooding. We are already seeing the roadsides covered in piles of soggy carpet and pads.
Hipparchia noticed that the National Weather Service thought it was notable.
We had near constant lightning and thunder all night long with a number of strikes near my house. Sleep was nearly impossible.
The Panhandle has been declared a disaster area by the state, which will hopefully lead to a Federal declaration because the state doesn’t adequately fund the disaster fund any more, and the clean up and repairs are going to be expensive.
April 30, 2014 7 Comments
Hexennacht
It’s Hexennacht and there is a new moon , but there is no Blocksberg available for dancing down here and it is so soggy that bonfires are out of the question.
Of course the Church grabbed this holiday too and called it Walpurgisnacht in honor of one of their Anglo-Saxon saints, rather than good German witches [Hexen]. The Celts celebrate Beltaine at this time of the year. It is considered the beginning of summer in much of Europe.
April 30, 2014 1 Comment
