Wrath o' the Gods

Yesterday we had heavy rain, lightning, thunder, tornadoes, power outages...

"Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... mass hysteria!" -- Bill Murray in Ghostbusters

Thankfully, our local alert system warns us of pending danger.

Received: 06:53 AM EDT, 08/12/2010
From: "Alert Montgomery"

THE NATL WEATHER SVC IN STERLING VA HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING FOR MONTGOMERY COUNTY IN CNTL MD UNTIL 700 AM EDT.

OK, we'll be sure to watch out for the next 7 minutes. Oh wait, there was an earlier one at 6:42 am, so they actually gave us 18 minutes. My bad.

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