Challenges

Well, if you don't live in the Houston area, you may not be aware that we have been pummeled by thunderstorms for the last 18 hours. Especially the northwest area that I live and work in. Because Houston and the surrounding areas tend to flood if someone has a good cry, it was determined by many important people in the wee hours of the morning that my school district would be closed today. I got an automated phone call at 6 am that schools were closed.

Ahhhh, I could roll over and go back to sleep.

Except....that dang adrenaline that was sent into my body with the 6 am phone call made me jump in the air and there was no way I could fall back asleep. So I got up and watched all the weathermen telling us how dangerous it was out there. (They live for these days....24 hour reporting about the same thing.)It really is bad out there..lots of flooding and silly drivers going to work driving into water and stalling. Duh.

Two observations I want to make:

1) We were under a Tornado Warning yesterday evening around 5 pm........and the weather outside was far worse than anything I saw during Hurricane Ike. Scary, dark. Sheets of sideways rain.......not near as soothing as the little vertical drops. Trees bending is always a little freaky to me. Wind you can't see, but bending trees?

Must be some mighty wind.

My street and back porch flooded.

Trash cans floating down the river yesterday afternoon on my street.

I signed up with our local Channel 11 KHOU awhile back and I get automated phone calls from them when my address is in a Tornado Warning. Somehow that's very reassuring. But then I don't really know what to do with the information....do I clean out the center hall closet? Prepare to hunker down. Or do I go back and forth and stare out of the windows looking for the funnel? Or eat? Because maybe I won't be able to eat for awhile. Which is a better use of my time?


2) Chuck went to work this morning even though every news station was screaming

DO NOT GO IN UNLESS IT IS A LIFE OR DEATH SITUATION. PLEASE WAIT FOR DAYLIGHT OR UNTIL THE WATERS BEGIN TO RECEDE.

Well, I guess now we know. For Chuck, his work is a life and death situation.

3) I've spent the last couple of hours reading blogs. Blog hopping. I read a favorite, then I pick one of her favorites, then one of their favorites......until 2 hours have passed and nothing else has been done around here. But my laundry and dishes are very loyal to me.......they wait. They would never let anyone else touch them. Awwww.

And so I came across this on one of the many, many blogs I read this morning. I copied it to bring in over here and I clicked away from the site before I could note where I was. I don't think it's illegal to not give credit,

it's probably just good blog etiquette.

Can I do this? Uh, I am sure I can. But it would mean many, many bites on my tongue and staying away from certain people. No, I can do this. Can you?

(of course, it's going to be a very quiet week.....)