Then Came the Deluge

After several days in the storm doughnut hole, the hole closed upon the tirehouse today and on came the deluge. Almost 3" of rain in well less than an hour and then it was mostly gone.  Still, I seemed to dodge the worst of today's wild weather, the 60+ mph wind and golf ball size hail that folks were warned of to the west and south.  Today's rain pushes the total to date for 2018 ahead of the total for all of 2017; more rain fell here today than in all of June and July last summer - 'tis a world full of surprises. None of the wildness should come as a surprise on the planet of change.
In my summer vacation/retirement mentality, I'm doing quite a bit of reading, or re-reading, spurred both by my enjoyment of reading and PBS's, Great American Read. After Vonnegut's, Sirens of Titan, I dove into another SciFi classic: Dune. Reading about a desert planet and a people sealed up to preserve all body fluids is quite a contrast when my adventures outside require being sealed up to prevent having my body fluids sucked dry by mosquitoes and flies and ticks. I like the desert but prefer the temperate forests - less the blood sucking bugs... Adapt, Migrate...Die; still the only option on any planet.
It's looking like another unsettled week here in the mid-latitudes, today's storms ahead of a front pushing to the south for a couple of days (cooler) before the southern air moves the boundary back north of us (warmer) later in the week. All days will offer another shot at storms. But, no volcano here...and we haven't had an aftershock for quite awhile.  The moon is nearing new and hard to spot in clear skies but clouds will cut out most any night sky viewing here this week. If you have clear skies and no flooding concerns, the late spring sky is full of fun constellations with planets scattered about most of the night.
Below is a look at the HersheyDog Creek ripping along today after the rain...

The debris on the bridge was washed up before I got there (or dared go outside during the deluge). Never seen water over the bridge before... glad it didn't wash away!!
Watch out, out there, but get out and check out the wild planet, Today on Earth.