Today's Daily Double is... thunderstorms that COMMIT!

it's been drizzling out here all week at about forty percent effort, and it has me missing how a july afternoon went down in cary north carolina where I grew up. you want to know how a real storm operates?

• around 4:30 the light gets sorta green (hard to explain, you know it when you see it)
• the cicadas all shut up at the same time, that's how you know it's coming
• one fat drop smacks the driveway, then three more
• then the sky just OPENS, no warmup at all, gutters going full blast and the pine trees bending way over
• thunder loud enough you feel it in your chest
• mom on the porch counting mississippis between the flash and the boom
• rains like hell for twenty or thirty minutes and then done, sun right back out like nothing happened
• steam coming up off the asphalt and everything smells like hot rain and pine sap for a bit
• back outside barefoot

now that is what they call..... weather. probably why i went and got a degree in rocks, i think the thing i liked about back there is that stuff would start and then it would finish, and you always knew which part you were in. I love this bay and i'd pick it again, but the sky out here could stand to commit to something once in a while