Thunder and lightning are getting louder and more frequent; could we possibly get a summer shower-- or has it forgotten how to rain? Yesterday afternoon we had similar threats but not a drop fell. Wait, it is really raining and this more than a shower; it is pouring. For more than 30 minutes it rained hard. The drainage ditch overflowed and our backyard was like a lake.
When the rain began it brought to mind when we were children working in the fields and a summer shower caught us. If we were near enough to the house we went there to wait out the shower before returning to the field. Sometimes we were near enough to a fence row where we could shelter under persimmon and sassafras bushes. We did not mind getting wet but we feared the lightning.
One time when we were working at the place on the Cotton Valley road a storm came up, sending us to the trees along the field. We saw lightning strike in the middle of the open field. I had always understood that lightning was more likely to hit the tallest tree or structure in an area.
The rain came too late to save the St. Augustine lawns in the neighborhood but the cooler temperatures are very welcome; surely it won't get up to the 104 predicted for this afternoon. Some years we have a cool snap in late August even if the heat holds on in the afternoon. Whatever happens, we can look forward to October, which, along with May, gives us the best weather of the year.
(Note. This is my second writing of this report on the rain. Electricity has gone off briefly three times and I lost my blog, all except the title.)
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