You all know well enough that if I had of cancelled plans for yesterday evening, the clouds would have immediately parted and the sun shown through. But as it was it stayed blustery and tried to dribble on the walk down, but nothing much came of it. That was until around 9:45pm when it was time to walk home after a round of adult beverages (I’m a light weight, so no driving). And within a handful of steps the rains began to fall. It was more of a mild annoyance. The rain felt fine in the dark, but looked way worse in the light of the street lamps, or the cone of a head light. Then it looked pretty awful. My main concern was the flashing of lightning in the sky. But no rumbles, so I was confident it was all fairly far away. It rumble a good crack once or twice when I was within five hundred meters of home, so all together not awful. Could have been a whole lot worse. It wasn’t a completed downpour, and the lightning was far away. I could have called for a ride, but it wasn’t that bad. Plus it had been so hot and humid that the coolness of the rain on my shoulders was welcomed.
Now did any of it hit the farm? Given that it lasted roughly twenty minutes and was by my estimation blowing north east, I think it passed over the up and coming vegetable crops. So back we’ll go for our turn at watering. Nothing screams fun! Like lugging dirty hoses around the gardens.
Should I have been surprised to see so many restaurants in town that were packed to the gills last night? I visited a covered patio with a high ceiling, open all four sides, with only a few scattered guests. So I think I’m ok. I had my N95 on me, and kept my distance, but who knows if that’s enough with BA.5 at this point.
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