makes you think

The weather is beginning to scare me lately. I remember when a passing thunderstorm was common during the summer, but it would just be a few rumbles of thunder, some lightning and a downpour of rain.

But lately, every thunderstorm that passes over us is a severe thunderstorm sometimes sprinkled with a tornado watch in it as well.

Today we were under a watch and then it quickly turned to a warning. I watched as our umbrella turned into a sail thanks to the 60mph winds, carrying our table nearly sideways a half a dozen times. Cloud to ground lightning strikes made the thunder shake the house. Then the hail came. And that's another thing, we never used to get hail with storms. This summer I'm pretty sure every thunderstorm we've had has dropped hail on us.

But today was different. Today it lasted more than 5 minutes.


It just makes me wonder what we are really doing to this planet of ours. Maybe things are a little worse than we think.