YESTERDAY'S HIMICANE

 It was awesome !  After five months of sunny, warm, gorgeous weather we finally got some rain. 

I know I shouldn't be complaining about the absolutely beautiful winter we have had down here but really, it does get a bit boring after a while.  Nothing but sunny skies, warm breezes, green grass and trees . . .  we really need to mix it up every so often. And yesterday provided us with exactly that. 

At about three in the afternoon my phone started yelling at me and the TV started blaring warnings about SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IN THE AREA. This is never cause for alarm for us because where we live we will not get flooded, we will not have trees falling on our heads and to be perfectly honest I don't trust the National Weather Service because they are all a bunch of alarmists.  So rather then get all pumped up over some wind and rain headed our way we opened all the blinds so we could watch the storm approach.  

IT WAS AWESOME !!!!   

First the sky started getting darker and darker. Then the wind started to whip up and the temperature started to drop. Next the rain began to fall in torrents and I am told there was quarter size hail but we never heard or saw any of that.  It lasted about a half hour and it was better than TV. 

The Man had never witnessed a Himicane so he was entertained as much as I was.  I explained to him that this was a mini version of a Florida Hurricane to which he replied, "If a hurricane is worse than this I'm glad I am not living here during hurricane season".  The Himicane was quite enough for him.

I realize many of you have never even heard of Himicanes because they are not a widely known weather event. Basically they are not strong enough or wild enough or powerful enough to be called Hurricanes. Because like all things female only the very toughest and strongest get the attention.  Himicanes are basically whussy little storms that make noise and blow around a lot of hot air but just don't amount to anything. 

(Are you beginning to get what I'm saying?) 

A Himicane can NEVER come close to a full blown hurricane at her worst. Hurricanes lie in wait and build up massive amounts of fury so that when they finally explode you had better have battened down the hatches and headed for the hills.  Sometimes a hurricane will be building but something happens to defuse it and when that happens everyone involved is delighted to have avoided the storm.  Other times hurricanes will be headed in one direction with all their attention focussed on a particular target but something happens to blow her off course and out to sea so there is no damage at all.  The worst is when a hurricane will suddenly get blown off course so that she makes an unexpected landfall in a totally unexpected place.   No one is ever prepared for that scenario and lives can be lost.  

Try as they may the National Weather Service tries their best to predict Hurricanes.  They do a piss poor job of it but at least they try.

Himicanes aren't even worth thinking about.