As much as I want to live where there’s sufficient rainfall . . I don’t want to live where there’s thunder. Maybe I’m just not remembering correctly but it doesn’t seem like in Louisiana, every time it rains, the weather alarms go off, there’s massive thunder and hail. But maybe I’m not remembering that because I didn’t have a dog that was scared to death of thunder. It seems like, in Missouri, we rarely had thunderstorms that the tornado sirens didn’t go off. I remember saying “Can we just live where we get rain and no sirens?” We rarely get rain here but if there are sirens, we don’t hear them out here. The weather alarm went off a little before 2 a.m. and the biggest part of the storm passed through a little after 2.
Storm
Some of that pink stuff went right over us.
When I started to go to bed last night, Rita ran into the bedroom. I knew bad weather was in our forecast. She never wants to sleep with us and we don’t let her but I figured Vince has to get up and go to work, if we don’t let her sleep with us, she’ll wake him up and I’ll never hear her or the storm so I took Rita and went and slept in a guest room so Vince could get some sleep.
So . . 2:20 a.m. and Vince is snoozing in the bed while I’m up with Rita. Accuweather says we have 58 more minutes of rain. I’ll just stay up til the bad weather is gone.
We did get a lot of rain . . my guess is at least 2″. We so desperately needed rain. The wild fire danger was way up in super scary levels . . that those aren’t the terms the officials use!
Texas Storm Chasers used a good term . . “Small hail, gusty winds, heavy rain, and frequent lightning. In other words — a ruckus!” Add to that Gr. . one small dog scared to death of thunder and you’re right . . a ruckus is exactly what we had at our house at 2 a.m. Granny will need a nap today!
Karen Sutton says
Several years ago we had an English Sheep dog mix that was scared to death of thunder. She slept on the floor next to our bed. The second she heard any thunder – and she heard it a lot sooner than we did – she’d jump up on the bed – all 100 lbs of her! It was like being dive bombed by an elephant. She’d pace back and forth shaking until the thunder was over. When she finally settled down she’d go into our bathroom and tuck herself between the toilet and the wall.
Susan says
I had a roommate like that in college. I went looking for her one time, because I love thunder storms – my mom and I used to sit on our house steps in Odessa and watch them, so they aren’t a bad thing to me. I found my roommate in the sleeping porch, under the furthest bed from a window, tucked way into the corner! I’m not sure how much better she is now, but she doesn’t get upset when her drug lord neighbors scream and rant in the middle of the night. This time, I was the one who took my blanket and pillow and went to the floor of the living room on the other side of the house! LOL
I hope you got your nap.
April Reeves says
It’s Louisiana. We keep partying till it is at least category 3 then we worry.