The last 24 hours has been a wild weather ride for the Midwest - I enjoy the warmer weather, but I could do without all this. This past weekend was graduation for so many Midwestern schools - the city of Olathe, KS (a KC suburb) cancelled the graduation exercises of all four of its schools last night. A wise move - probably not very popular, but wise.
Now we're watching the evening news of all the tornado devastation from Oklahoma and the schools leveled by tornadoes - we can't help but think of the May 22, 2011 tornado that hit Joplin, MO, on a Sunday evening following graduation.
Current-day media has changed news reporting so much. I was excited to watch a very grainy report of Neil Armstrong landing on the moon in 1969. In last month's bombing in Boston, social media was used to help look for the perpetrators as police encouraged everyone in attendance with cell phones to send in their photos and videos so police could scan the crowd. We are instantly on the scene of most disasters and events now, rather than hearing about it after a few days and then seeing photos in "Life" magazine (or "Time" or "Newsweek"). This must be an amazing time to be a news reporter.
Back to the Midwest, the clouds threatened yesterday and our local graduation was moved inside as a precaution. We had just a short shower at 3 pm, but enough to justify the indoor ceremony. The weather threatened all evening, then finally hit here just before 9 pm. The storm waves came through almost hourly from then through 1am, and they each lasted about half an hour. It varied by a few minutes, but it was ridiculously consistent.
We lost electricity for 35 minutes between 10 and 11 last night......when the storms passed through, it was raining really hard. The little sump pump in our basement worked overtime to catch up once the power came back on. I always know when it comes back, because our answering machine tells me it's on and needs its time reset. It seems to think I care, regardless of the time!
Hubby seemed to sleep pretty well and woke up perky - I didn't quite share his enthusiasm for the day. We alternated today between dark clouds and bright sunshine. We cut our walk a little short this morning because dark clouds were coming in. We made it back to the car and were home before that rain started. We've missed the nasty weather so far today - but I don't think I'll tempt fate and try to record the blog this evening! It just doesn't seem prudent.
Our thoughts and prayers go out to all those hit by today's tornadoes in Oklahoma, especially in the town of Moore.
Talk to you tomorrow.
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