Greetings, my fellow port swillers!
Usually it’s another month or so before ol’ Robbo has to deal with thunderstorms on his drive home in the evening but today’s possibly-tornado-packing big boomer caught him just as he was crossing the Potomac. Wicked pissah of a storm. It was as I crawled along the bridge in the midst of the tempest that the thought came back to me that a rag top on a car is absolutely no protection whatsoever against lightning strikes.
Road closures all over the neighborhood forced me to tack widely around before I could finally get back to Port Swiller Manor, there only to discover that the power was out and the driveway was an inland sea due to the drains all being plugged by debris.
Ah, well. Just like Helen Hunt back in the day, tt’s the wonder of nature, baybee!
Yeah, I think I’ll toss that movie into the Netflix queue now that I’m thinking about it.
(By the bye, did anyone else get that creepy National Alert System announcement earlier in the afternoon? I heard it on the radio, but I gather it was simultaneously flashed out over other broadcast systems as well.
The Port Stands At Your Elbow 
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February 25, 2016 at 4:16 am
Victoria
I heard that alert and it freaked me out! I was watching a station out of Pittsburgh and expected to see, you know, PA counties and such, but instead it was like a US geography quiz. Weird weird weird…
February 25, 2016 at 5:28 am
quiltbabe
It’s a riot being in a grocery store when that alert is simultaneously sent to cell phones.The alert freaks you out more than the storm, which I guess is the point – anything to get you to take appropriate action.
February 25, 2016 at 11:53 am
rbj1
Rain turned to snow here. Supposed to hit 50+ Sunday, so to do a favor for my back I’m not shoveling.
February 25, 2016 at 1:59 pm
waterdog
“Just like Helen Hunt back in the day, tt’s the wonder of nature, baybee!” Hmmm…had to reread that carefully to avoid mentally slipping an “i” into that ninth word there. Accurate statement either way.
February 25, 2016 at 9:23 pm
Robbo
Whoops… Dang these obsolete glasses. Or my wandering fingers. Or something.
As for the alert system, I can’t think of any scenario worth activating it on a national level except the Yellowstone Caldera, SMOD, or Skynet unleashing Judgement Day, in which case it wouldn’t matter very much anyway.