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In the form of a mantra:Rain, Rain, Rain, Rain. Rain, Rain, Rain,Rain, Rain, Rain, Rain. Rain, Rain, Rain,Rain, Rain, Rain, Rain. Rain, Rain, Rain,Rain, Rain, Rain, Rain. Rain, Rain, Rain,Rain, Rain, Rain, Rain. Rain, Rain, Rain,Rain, Rain, Rain, Rain. Rain, Rain, Rain, come on your lagging behind, Rain, Rain, Rain, Rain. Rain, Rain, Rain,Rain, Rain, Rain, Rain. Rain, Rain, Rain,

I used to go chasing them when I lived in Oklahoma.... The best I got was hail and some funnel clouds...

They get some ferocious storms on oklahoma! Almost everyday in the summer. I loved it!

Nope, don't like the dust. It sucks.

How about this:

Rain, Rain,Rain ( no violent winds that brigng down power lines and close the airport ) Rain, rain, rain, ( no violent winds that brigng down power lines and close the airport ) Rain, rain, rain.

OK, off topic, but someone, somewhere, posted that we should watch the Robin Williams special on HBO...well I just did and I may wake up in the middle of the night laughing my a** off!

It's on again tonight at 10pm on HBOPW. If you have Cox or Qwest digital cable, or maybe a dish, you can catch it then.

I must have missed that post but I like Williams cause he writes his own stuff :P

Now back to the Rain-Chant

RAIN RAIN RAIN!

I missed out on the cool morning today. One more round please!

My dust storm story from Sunday

My wife, a friend and me were training our search and rescue dogs in the state trust land west of Iornwood Sunday night. Everything looked clear except for a small storm to the south. The wind was blowing to the east so we thought we'd be okay.
We trained the friends dog first for about an hour and were going to run our dog on a problem. I sent out the friend to go get lost and waited awhile for her sent to set up. I looked at the storm to the south and it had gotten closer, but the wind was still to the east and it was still a ways away so we started the search. 5 minutes in, the storm was getting really close. My wife went back to the trucks to start to pack up in case we had to leave in a hurry, I started to lead the dog to the friend to end the search quickly.
My wife was half way back to the truck when she yelled to me to call off the search. I looked to the storm and it was about half a mile away and you could see it moving closer. It was a solid wall of dust. It was so thick it looked like a cliff face. I got on the radio and told the friend (playing lost) "get up and run to the trucks right now!" She responded with something, but I just repeated "RUN NOW!" I called my dog back and started running back also. we were both about 1/4 mile from the trucks. My wife was already there packing things up. Oddly, when the friend came out of the bushes, my dog did as trained. He ran to her, verified it was her, came back to me and alerted he found her (as I we were sprinting to the trucks running about 200 feet apart). Just as we got to the trucks the wall hit us. Visability was maybe 5 feet. My wife was already inside our truck, I grabbed the dog and threw him in, then helped the friend get her stuff away before jumping in my truck. I was covered in dirt, my eyes were full of it, my mouth, ears... and I was only out in it for maybe a minute. Visability went to zero. from inside the truck we could not see the hood or antenna. The wind was strong enough that the truck felt like it could go over. Growing up in the midwest, the only thing I could think was please don't be a tornado. After about 15 minutes it started letting up. From where we were, we could now see the street lights on Meridian maybe a 1/4 mile away, but still couldn't see more then 5 feet in front of the truck. We slowly drove towards the lights, going around bushes as we seen them and got on the road. We crawled to our house, which is right there, and wached from inside the house.
Had we been a few minutes slower getting back to the trucks we would have been in pretty rough shape. Finding the trucks would have been impossible. The only option would have been to lay on the ground and wait for it to blow over. I never seen a dust storm that thick or come in that fast.