The heavens declare the glory of God;
the skies proclaim the work of his hands.
-Psalm 19:1

Do you know that God controls the clouds and makes his lightning flash?
-Job 37:15



Tuesday, December 04, 2007

Here comes the cold again...

Well, a lot can happen when you miss a weekend of weather... Good morning! I had a great weather break, and hopped back into it as a Dewdropcicle. I can't say I wasn't warned... what a phenomenal system we had yesterday!! Let me start at the beginning. Over the weekend, I ignored weather, SDS is bad, and reading the forecast just frustrated the fool out of me, so I ignored it. I was too busy to fool with it anyway. Well, I did know a cold front was approaching... but that was from Friday's forecast. So, you heard about my Saturday... and on Monday, I woke up and had a planned day off to take care of some stuff... for one my van visiting the shop. Well, before I make it there, I get a call from my dear, sweet neighbor... "hi neighbor... your fire alarm is going off again." About that time, I get a call from my alarm company... "Miss Dewdrop (no, they didn't really call me that), your fire alarm is going off." I explained the situation, cancelled the alarm... and then, dear, sweet neighbor calls back... "Uh, neigbor, the fire department is at your house. I gave them your name and number. I hope that is OK." Sigh. Well, this morning, I was smart, I called my alarm company early and said... "OK, at about 8:20, my smoke alarm is going to go off signaling a general fire alarm at my house. It is a faulty smoke detector. Your technician is scheduled to come out today and work on that. I am officially cancelling the fire alarm that hasn't occurred yet. PLEASE, do not dispatch the fire department. THANKS!" So, far, no calls. Whew!

Well, yesterday, we got a tiny little speck of rain. Haven't found the rain gauge base to change the batteries, so I don't have totals, but I would guess, well under 1/2 an inch. It was cool, though, because on the leading edge of the cold front was this really awesome powerfully windy gust front, incredible clouds, and I enjoyed it while it lasted, even though it was super-fast. With the power of the gust front, I knew we were in for a doozy of a cold front, and sure enough, this morning, I had a reading of 29 degrees on my thermometer. I didn't feel a high degree of confidence because the city south of me had a reading of 36 or 37... can't remember, but the wind chill was at 33. OK, so I am thinking... something is not right, but as I watched TWC, the temperature in the city below was dropping as the wind started to die. Ten minutes after the first temp reading I saw, the temp had dropped to 34, which helped me feel slightly more comfortable with my reading... but bottom line was that I froze my patootie off waiting on Mini-Dew's bus this morning... Dewdropcicle! Ugh. Of course with the cold front, "very dry air", we have red flag conditions. Cool thing, though, I was treated to a really spectacular sunset yesterday. It was breathtaking.

A little bad news... I took my van to the shop.... sigh... busted radiator. $244.15 later, I have a new one. Merry Christmas to me... fa la la la la and all that.

That's all folks!
~Dewdrop

4 comments:

  1. It truly took my breath away.

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  2. Sorry about your van...that really sucks. Just be glad it didn't die while you were enroute to someplace chasetacular.

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  3. Chasetacular!!! Love it, and you are so right! Wouldn't that have been awful!!! It does suck that it happened though. I didn't want a radiator for Christmas!!!

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