dang it

the power flickered and it took a few minutes to get the internet running again.....still unsettled weather in the region, expected to continue raining and thunderstorms on and off until a high pressure moves in Tuesday-Wednesday .......Sunday afternoon around four the tornado sirens went off, and the NWS on television was showing a thunderstorm cell with "some rotation" heading this way from down around Lake Greenwood.....by four-thirty the warning was cancelled as that cell fell apart.....a funnel cloud was reported  near the lake, but it never touched the ground.... no reports of damage.....but it did set a record for rain-for-the-date......automated rain gauges somewhere around here signaled 3" in 90 minutes......was some road flooding around Greer I guess.....but the rivers stayed within their banks as far as I've heard.....I went out on the front porch as the sirens were sounding, as did my neighbors on the block.....we allowed as how there's nothing you can do really, just wait and see if everything blows away or not.....if you are in a car or a trailer-home you are supposed to get inside a real house.....had tacos for supper after all that, watched a "Wallander" and then later found an ESPN radio feed on roku and listened to the Spurs game until the Heat got up by 30 points in the 4th quarter when I went on to bed.......damn, the lights flickered again.....