Getting one’s butt kicked in a battle with Mother Nature. Again.

Why, after all these years, do I think I know more than nature?

I failed to bring my umbrella with me when I returned to my office this afternoon after being out in the field. We have an average somewhere around 50 and 60 inches of rain each year and some of it comes this time of year when it’s hot and a lot of moisture from the Gulf of Mexico interacts with the heat. We get thunderstorms like yesterday, which started more like a dust storm.

The air was full of dirt and sand prior to the big thunderboomer yesterday. It wasn’t enough to hinder vision, but it nonetheless seemed odd. It was followed by a big moomba choomba. That idiotspeak for thunderstorm. The electricity was out when I got to the VA clinic yesterday afternoon. Many people had to reschedule their appointments. I don’t know if the people who work there had a difficult time today being backlogged. If so, I don’t envy them.

Yesterday’s storm was enough to tear off some signs and pieces of housing here and there.

It was not unexpected that we’d have another event this afternoon. The low pressure system that was once the tropical depression in the Gulf is somewhere near the “L” in Louisiana.

I just thought I could beat the storm this afternoon. I couldn’t I was “trapped” in my office until it passed, unable to work. I am not allowed to work when I am not on duty. Imagine that! Too bad, I could have finished some work and would have been ahead for tomorrow on which I will be working a tight deadline. But rules are rules.

Next time, I will bring my umbrella. That’s what I always tell myself.