WOW

Sunny and 90 degrees +, then WHAM, things went wild and the storm came in with thunder lightening, etc. Maybe it will cool down. One can only hope.

Thanks for the pic Karen!!

Weather Woes

The strange weather in Iowa continues. A levy broke in Des Moines and people have lost their houses for the second time in the remembered past. I got to see the damage the flood was causing last time in '93. This time I have missed out and that's ok by me. I will say this. I hate being woke up in the middle of the night to corral 4 cats and head to the basement because of tornado warnings. Last nite, one was spotted near us so the whole family went to the basement....It was 3:30 a.m. so some of us were getting up anyway, but still. Waking up to that kind of a panic isn't good for the system. After the all clear, I went back to bed. The farmers have to be flipping out from all the bad weather, but they always are no matter what the weather does anymore.....

Neither rain nor sleet nor snow....Yeah right.....

I think the postal service is eventually going out of business. I mean it. I am upset that postage is going up again.....I know gas has gone up, along with everything else, and once upon a time I could have gone along with it, but not anymore. I'm sorry, but in the last 2 years I haven't had mail delivered approximately 10 times. Every time I call the post office, I am told that the weather just got too bad and the postal carriers were able to stop early..........Hmm hard to have any sympathy for them with the motto they have (HA RIGHT) and the fact that I watched her deliver to the house across the street before she quit. Yes, how do I know, but if you saw the amount of mail the next day, you would know, too. Other places have weather worse than us and I can guarantee their mail didn't say "I think I'll stop now" add to that, I'd like her to talk to the people that were expecting payments that may not have got them on time because she just wasn't in the mood to finish her job.. I"m ranting, but it really gets on my nerves...........Now that I am writing.......I will probably go the email Christmas card route this year if I can get away with it. I am just po'd enough about the whole thing.............