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That was an intentional typo, by the way. When I was a kid, I called them "tunderstorms"
Ahh....everyone in my part of Wisconsin had been awaiting the impending severe thunderstorm that was headed our way on Friday.
Friday morning, even when I left work at 7 am....it was warm! Dear lord, I hadn't been able to leave work without a jacket in months!
By 10:15 when I left my parents' house, I was wearing a tanktop and track pants and flip flops. It was already in the 70s! Wow! I can roll my windows down!
I got some food, took my usual post Days Of Our Lives nap, and was awoken by the storm sirens at about 4:30-4:40.
As usual, I'm ignorant. Whenever I hear that siren, I think "Go outside and have a smoke and watch!" instead of "Maybe I should stay inside...". I turned the channel to the local news, which was cutting off Oprah and alerting everyone in the viewing area that a big storm was approaching. No big worries of tornados or anything, but some hail and huge wind gusts weren't out of the question.
I stood out on the porch smoking and talking to my neighbor. I said "Isn't it nice to FINALLY be able to watch a storm without Sheriff bugging us?" Because my neighbor and I both like to stand outside and watch it storm (unless it starts raining sideways, then we go back in), but Sheriff, who thinks he's a storm chaser and uber meteorologist, always is out in the middle of the storm and won't shut up the entire time and tries to talk to us and tell us WHY it's storming and what causes it, etc etc etc. Just a pain in the ass like he always is. He's ruined many a storm gazing day for both of us.
But alas, speak of the Devil and he shall showeth. No sooner did those words escape my mouth and my neighbor nodded and laughed, did Sheriff's car approach the parking lot, and he immediately parked, got out, yelled at us "It's gonna be a BIG ONE!" (you say that every time, you fucking moron. Last time it stormed really bad, you tried to convince everyone that there was a funnel cloud on the edge of town and you tried to herd everyone into the basements......luckily, my neighbor said "You know there isn't, blas. Don't worry." I went inside to watch the news, and sure enough, NO funnel cloud. Idiot)
Then Sheriff ran into his apartment, emerged back outside moments later, putting on his storm suit, which is pretty much a full body rain suit, hat, body suit, and shoes. But the fucking idiot forgot the shoes, so he was stomping in the rain with his cowboy boots.
Now it was just starting to lightning very bright and thunder very loud and closeby. Then some hail started falling. Then some slightly bigger, nickle sized hail.
Sheriff was running up and down the parking lot, screaming at everyone about how BIG this storm was going to be, getting nailed by nickle sized hail, and picking it up and playing with it! He did the same thing last May when we had our first severe weather.
Ahh, but the storm only lasted about 10 minutes at full strength, then it quickly died and moved on. There were a few more rumbles of thunder for the next hour or so, but nothing else spectacular. Wow. That severe weather didn't last long!
Oh well...at least we got a show.
I'm eagerly awaiting more storms. If only Sheriff would go away and go right to the eye of the storm....since he's such a pro at it....why isn't he out in the storm instead of playing in it right by where he lives?!
Ahh....everyone in my part of Wisconsin had been awaiting the impending severe thunderstorm that was headed our way on Friday.
Friday morning, even when I left work at 7 am....it was warm! Dear lord, I hadn't been able to leave work without a jacket in months!
By 10:15 when I left my parents' house, I was wearing a tanktop and track pants and flip flops. It was already in the 70s! Wow! I can roll my windows down!
I got some food, took my usual post Days Of Our Lives nap, and was awoken by the storm sirens at about 4:30-4:40.
As usual, I'm ignorant. Whenever I hear that siren, I think "Go outside and have a smoke and watch!" instead of "Maybe I should stay inside...". I turned the channel to the local news, which was cutting off Oprah and alerting everyone in the viewing area that a big storm was approaching. No big worries of tornados or anything, but some hail and huge wind gusts weren't out of the question.
I stood out on the porch smoking and talking to my neighbor. I said "Isn't it nice to FINALLY be able to watch a storm without Sheriff bugging us?" Because my neighbor and I both like to stand outside and watch it storm (unless it starts raining sideways, then we go back in), but Sheriff, who thinks he's a storm chaser and uber meteorologist, always is out in the middle of the storm and won't shut up the entire time and tries to talk to us and tell us WHY it's storming and what causes it, etc etc etc. Just a pain in the ass like he always is. He's ruined many a storm gazing day for both of us.
But alas, speak of the Devil and he shall showeth. No sooner did those words escape my mouth and my neighbor nodded and laughed, did Sheriff's car approach the parking lot, and he immediately parked, got out, yelled at us "It's gonna be a BIG ONE!" (you say that every time, you fucking moron. Last time it stormed really bad, you tried to convince everyone that there was a funnel cloud on the edge of town and you tried to herd everyone into the basements......luckily, my neighbor said "You know there isn't, blas. Don't worry." I went inside to watch the news, and sure enough, NO funnel cloud. Idiot)
Then Sheriff ran into his apartment, emerged back outside moments later, putting on his storm suit, which is pretty much a full body rain suit, hat, body suit, and shoes. But the fucking idiot forgot the shoes, so he was stomping in the rain with his cowboy boots.
Now it was just starting to lightning very bright and thunder very loud and closeby. Then some hail started falling. Then some slightly bigger, nickle sized hail.
Sheriff was running up and down the parking lot, screaming at everyone about how BIG this storm was going to be, getting nailed by nickle sized hail, and picking it up and playing with it! He did the same thing last May when we had our first severe weather.
Ahh, but the storm only lasted about 10 minutes at full strength, then it quickly died and moved on. There were a few more rumbles of thunder for the next hour or so, but nothing else spectacular. Wow. That severe weather didn't last long!
Oh well...at least we got a show.
I'm eagerly awaiting more storms. If only Sheriff would go away and go right to the eye of the storm....since he's such a pro at it....why isn't he out in the storm instead of playing in it right by where he lives?!
Love to watch the lightning and hear the thunder. There's something about a good, hard, violent storm that is just truly beautiful to behold.
I AM the evil bastard!
Even if they're just testing it - the sound is CREEPY as all get out. 
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