About 20 minutes before the start of our "...And Put Up A Parking Lot" tour last night the skies opened up and gave anyone who wanted it a free (and rather heavy) shower, complete with thunder, lightning, and (I think) a plague of locusts. We had so been hoping we'd be able to do it; the day was nice and sunny and hot, and the rain that was supposed to presage the real storm never showed up. Not only that, but the percentage of a chance of precipitation kept going down, as well.
Unfortunately, our luck started to run out about 4, when the system moved through. You could tell because the wind shifted and the temperature dropped 20 degrees; however, there wasn't any rain. It wasn't until I left work and went down to the History Center that the first drop appeared, and by the time I completed the three block journey rain was everywhere.
We had set ourselves a time limit of 6 pm to call it off, and the rain started at 5:59. Talk about cutting it close...sigh. It's funny; there were people already gathering to take the walk, and a reporter from TV-6 (hi, Alyssa!) had her equipment all set up for an interview. Everything was set to go, except for Mother Nature, continuing her streak of letting us down in 2019.
Oh well...what are you gonna do, right? We'll try it again next Wednesday...same history time, same history channel. After all, it can't rain two Wednesday evenings in a row, can it?
Can it????
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There won't be one of these tomorrow,
as I'm taking the day off. Loraine's nephews Nathan and Jeremy are
coming up to visit, and we'll spend Friday and Saturday spending time
with them and showing off this amazing place where we live. So have
yourself a great weekend. See you again Monday!
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