Nature provided a pretty good show just a few minutes ago. It was thundering and lightning, and even for a short while, raining, all to beat the band.
Well, if the band was out marching in the thunderstorm on an open field it might have been beaten, or struck down perhaps, would be the better term. I’ve know a couple of folks who were struck by lightning. One guy I interviewed for a news story was zapped by lightning, in all places, outside a church after a Sunday service while he was holding an umbrella and helping little old ladies to their cars during quite a drenching. You see what being good will do for you?
I think even the most fervent rain hater might have liked the rain we got just now as we head toward a 30-inch rain deficit from this Texas-sized drought. And did you see videos of that “haboob,” the huge dust storm out in Arizona? It evokes the days of “this dusty old dust storm” that Woodie Guthrie sang about in “So Long It’s Been Good To Know Yuh.”
Some folks say the current drought in Texas is worse than the drought during the Dust Bowl. Bust this isn’t the Dust Bowl and the Republicans like those in the Great Depression and the Great Recession have yet to put us into a dusty Great Depression II. I stress yet.
Just enjoy those thundery rain-filled afternoons and hope more of those are a-coming.
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