Foundations

Well, it was nice while it lasted.  Not having neighbors behind us, I mean.  The foundation was poured for the house directly behind us today.  The houses back there come up fast, so it will probably just be a few days until it's built.  Depending on weather.

 

Last Friday's tornado was the biggest one ever recorded.  2.6 miles across.  I can't even begin to imagine that.  It was also an EF5, which is probably no surprise.  We were never in any danger from it, it was so far west of us and a little too far north to have come through here.  But it was devastating for the people in the area. 

 

Three storm chasers were killed.  These were professionals and they got caught in it.  There was a weather channel employee who (in my opinion) thought he was smarter than he was and that he could do what he told people not to do.  His car was damaged and he was hurt.  It was probably just a matter of time until a chaser got caught.  I'm surprised that it hasn't happened before this, and that it hasn't been one of the many, many unsmart people who seem to suddenly appear out of nowhere just to chase tornados - most of which are not professional.  The last couple of years, there has been a lot of stuff on the news where the meteorologists have actually told the non-professionals not to be out on the roads, searching.  For one thing, they just add to the traffic congestion and they endanger many people.

 

The tornado that went through our area last week wasn't as close as we thought.  The weather guy on the tv station apparently didn't know this area.  It was in our town, but not close enough to our house to have been a problem for us.  He didn't know the street names and was just calling out the name of any landmark he could think of.  He was just trying to warn people about the unexpected tornado that just suddenly popped up, but it kind of backfired.  It was also downgraded to an EF2 from an EF3.

 

We had thunderstorms early this morning, which is probably why my weathertoes were hurting last night.  To the point that they kept me awake.  We didn't have anything bad, just noisy.  It was a little rainy until mid-morning and a bit windy.  Then, the rain stopped and the sun came out.  Which means humid!  It was hard to even breathe outside.  We could get more rain tonight as well as off and on the next couple of days.  Probably not anything bad, just rain.  It's been a wet spring.

 

I have another bluebonnet blossom!  It's on the plant that I left in the whiskey barrel.  Amazing.  Fun!