Sunday, April 13, 2003

Stormy weather

You know the weather is gonna get bad, if youre in Berkeley, and the planes start flying overhead.

Which means the cloud cover is about 100 feet and theyre using the Cal-Berkeley clock tower (which is directly across the bay from the Golden Gate) as a visual point to make their turn into Oakland and SF airports.
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I was telling Mr Brian how surreal it is to have stormy weather and not hear thunder and lightning. I think Ive seen lightning once here.

It get rainy and windy and blustery, mainly.

Im used to the storms of the midwest and south.. the great plains have the rolling storms covering hundreds of miles, the lightning streaking across and down in great bursts with the resulting shaking even concrete buildings, while Florida is the lightning capital where the weather reports track lightning strikes on a second to second basis.

Brian thought about and realized he has seen thunder and lightning maybe a total of 20 times *in his life* living in SoCali.

Weird.
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Yes, the donut shop is about 10 blocks away - but I know Ive become a pussy if a little rain keeps me from heading out for coffee and donuts.
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Getting good bagels out here is out of the question.
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And as soon as i get back under the covers, the #$%^# sun comes outta hiding.

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(Later)

The sun came out, I took a walk sans camera, the night came down crisp and clear.

Not a bad day after all.

Like life, stormy days arent usually as bad as you fear , and rarely last as long as you think.


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