Today or should I say yesterday the 15th was my dad's birthday. He had actually forgotten that it was today he was thinking it was tomorrow until I wished him a happy birthday this morning. We didn't do much for his birthday because he didn't really want to go anywhere. But, we did play golf. I had played golf yesterday with my Uncle and got a slight sun burn from it so today I put on some sun screen and headed out there again with my dad and my Uncle. It doesn't take much for you to get sun burn here or get a tan for that matter. Today I wasn't able to finish the round though as on my second shot on the 9th hole I pulled something in my right arm. I tried to continue to play but didn't make it past the 10th tee. It hurt when I took the swings so I knew that I probably should stop before I do more than just pull something. So from then on I just watched them play and helped my dad as he needed it. But, as we were on the 14th hole we heard thunder in the distance but they kept playing as it was only in the distance and we could see no lightning. As we moved on the clouds grow darker and by the time we reached the 16th tee the thunder had gotten much louder and had become more frequent, but we still really were not seeing any lightning. I recommended that they should probably stop playing anyway but they insisted they were so close to finishing that they wanted to try. Once we got to the 17th tee (a par 3 hole) I could now see the lightning off in the distance from the storm that was off to our north and west and the storm was slowly moving our way. I again said that they should stop but again they insisted on trying to finish. As they played on the lightning become more numerous. As they reached the green I started seeing lightning to the south of us as well. Finally after realizing that we were pretty much surrounded by lightning they called it quits before heading to the 18th tee. About 10 minutes after my dad and I arrived home the storm hit.
It wasn't one of your typical summer storms either. There was a ton of lightning all of which was cloud to ground lightning. Many of these strikes hit fairly close by, I even saw two strikes hit from within 100 yards of the house. The thunder was unbelievable. Most of the clashes of thunder were short lived but they were potent in that short time. They were extremely loud and shook the whole house. I have been in storms before with loud claps of thunder but in those storms those loud claps of thunder were few and far between. These loud rattling claps were almost non-stop. And the rain was insanely heavy, in probably an hour period I wouldn't be surprised if we got around three inches of rain. The pond next to the golf course out behind our house flooded over and spelled into the golf course. Our side yards on both sides along with the street turned into rivers. I bet the water in some places was more than ankle deep at times before the rain finally came to a stop. Once the rain stopped the standing water almost disappeared as quickly as it formed. Then about 2 hours after the storms had past we got the residue effects from it as we lost power for about 20 minutes so we worked on crossword puzzles.
Now for the next few days I relax and let my sun burn tan as I do expect it to tan instead of peel since it isn't really a bad burn plus I also want to let the muscle or whatever it was I pulled get better. Then I will probably head out again and play atleast one more round of golf before starting the work on replacing all the siding on my great-aunts house. Overall though nothing overly exciting going on around here at the moment hence the long delays between post. Also that guy still hasn't posted the pictures of my dad's car but when he does I still will post the link. My dad has been getting tons of complements and looks from other people about his car as none of them have seen a PT Cruiser that looks like his before, my Aunt Rita calls it a "mobster car".
|| Vespere Hesperian 12:34 AM
