Tuesday, June 15, 2004
Weather woes and tornadoes
This thunderstorm season makes it very difficult to post a Codswallop and Flapdoodle comedy and almost humour column.
I am dodging lightning today; to say nothing of an extreme downpour. The skies were literally black today.
Okay, they are charcoal grey like the coals at a summer barbeque.
Over Brandon, in western Manitoba, the skies took on an otherworldly and eerie green colour.
Announcing tornadoes.
The storm saw at least two, and maybe more tornadoes touch down in western Manitoba. One even was spotted over downtown Brandon, Maniitoba (pop: 30,000).
Amazingly, there was only limited damage and no fatalities.
The good new: I live a couple of hours away, in eastern Manitoba.
The bad news: The twister laden storms were moving this way.
More good news: There were no tornadoes touching down anywhere near here.
In any case, the severe lightning kept me offline for the entire day, from about 11:00 am onward.
As a result, I am behind on my Codswallop and Flapdoodle advewntures.
As always, these storms shall pass, and blue skies will prevail once again.
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I am dodging lightning today; to say nothing of an extreme downpour. The skies were literally black today.
Okay, they are charcoal grey like the coals at a summer barbeque.
Over Brandon, in western Manitoba, the skies took on an otherworldly and eerie green colour.
Announcing tornadoes.
The storm saw at least two, and maybe more tornadoes touch down in western Manitoba. One even was spotted over downtown Brandon, Maniitoba (pop: 30,000).
Amazingly, there was only limited damage and no fatalities.
The good new: I live a couple of hours away, in eastern Manitoba.
The bad news: The twister laden storms were moving this way.
More good news: There were no tornadoes touching down anywhere near here.
In any case, the severe lightning kept me offline for the entire day, from about 11:00 am onward.
As a result, I am behind on my Codswallop and Flapdoodle advewntures.
As always, these storms shall pass, and blue skies will prevail once again.
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