Cool Lightning Storm

This evening and still going on we've had flash flooding and really cool lightning storms (alerts expire at 12:30 a.m.). Some of the lightning literally went totally across the sky. Amazing to watch! The streets are REALLY bad. I went out this evening and some of the roads in town are closed due to flooding. We found this out first-hand. Even our street right in front of our house was flooded over the curbs and onto our front lawn earlier in the day. It was pretty scary. But we are all safe and that's all that matters. Robert got this great video of one of the lightning storms. Enjoy!



... and yes, our basement is DRY!! Can't say that about the flood plain behind our house. I think it's the worst we've ever seen it in the 5.5 years we've lived here.

The weather outside is frightful...

Well, the weather may be frightful, but it certainly didn't stop our feathery friends from stopping by for a visit. We've had severe weather for the past 2 days with hail (thankfully we didn't get it at our house, but just a few miles away they did) and flash flooding. It's not been fun. North of us, they were expecting even possible tornadoes. Didn't hear of any officially, but there was a report of a roof removed due to high winds.

Our Robin has been making her visits to her nest and is getting more used to us being around and she doesn't seem to mind as much that we're around. We're trying to keep our distance to not disturb her too much, but I do need to get to our herbs on the deck.

I've lumped 2 video clips together to get a sense of where she is in relation to us. Why she chose our deck and a potted plant of all things to build her nest in, I have no idea. She seemed quite content to nest in the pouring rain. You will also see the huge amount of flooding that we had in our flood plain. The birds have been feasting all morning long...