This has been an interesting year. Although Spring supposedly started in March, think someone ignored the calendar. We have been in a long drought, broken up by an occasional cloud dropping less than a tenth of an inch of precipitation. We even had a brief snow as late as April 14th.
Our first hope came April 21st where we had a little over an inch of rain.
Rain would set out on the 7-10 day forecast at least 6 days out, then would disappear as it came closer. Then May 1st came into view. A slight risk slowly evolved. A tornado threat also appeared.

I watched the storms blow up the I70 highway.As they approached the I35 exchange I decided to run up north to see the storms.


I watched the ground scrubbers off in the distance in the failing light. They were down mudsoaked roads and out of touch. I started to head back to I35 but a wreck and several power poles diverted me to other wet dirt and clay roads for a fun run back to the highway and a long drive home. The storms provided quite the light show as I drove off with almost constant lightning. I wished I could have pulled over and watched for a while, but I had an early morning the next day and would get home late enough.
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