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Tuesday: Started to go for a walk in the evening, thinking it would be a good time to wander to a few different drug stores and do some comparison shopping on something. Maybe a quarter mile from home, I felt a few raindrops... and then a few more... and then found myself caught in a fairly heavy rain. Laughed at the timing, then laughed some more at how good it felt to have cool rain fall on me after a hot day. Kept walking to the closest of the stores, bought what I needed which turned out to be on sale there anyway, and came home (staying relatively dry that time since the "scattered showers" had moved off).

Wednesday: Spent much of the early part of the day in bed with my regularly-scheduled migraine. In the afternoon, I put on my shoes and grabbed my purse to go for a walk, though the sky was getting steadily darker, and was greeted outside by the mailcarrier who commented on how very dark it was and said that there would be an ugly storm coming our way. I took the mail inside, went back out, noticed it was noticeably darker than it had been a moment earlier, walked across the street, and--finally listening to my own common sense--turned around to go back inside.

My timing was quite good, actually: I was awake in time to notice the severe weather coming, I turned on the news radio in time to hear how severe it was going to be, shut the windows in the common areas before anything got too wet, grabbed a battery-operated radio and got it on just before the power went out, and went down to the basement for a little while since the emergency broadcast system was saying that would be an excellent idea.

So, power was out for about thirty or forty minutes, which makes us quite fortunate compared to others in the area, and some twigs and branches were blown around the neighborhood for a while. No tornado approached our neighborhood after all and I saw no major damage in the immediate vicinity when I finally did get out for a short walk. Aside from the fact that I still have a bloody migraine (but no abdominal pain! woohoo!), all is well here.

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Golly, tornado watches in Maryland? I had no idea!

Yep, it happens! We don't get anything like the numbers they do in certain other parts of the country, but there have been a couple of times that a tornado's touched down within a few miles of me. Yesterday the MD-DC-VA area seems to have had more tornado warnings than actual tornados, but the straight wind gusts were strong enough to do plenty of damage on their own.

I'm oddly amused. The first serious storm of the year, and I manage to almost completely miss it.

And it was the kind that gets meteorologists all excited, too. You should have heard them burbling away about wind shear and rotation!

Meh, that's only because they're not used to it. Storms of that nature (though not quite the magnitude) roll through the midwest pretty often.

the wind blew here like fury, and it rained a bunch, but the power only flickered a few times. i didn't hear about the tornado warning till it had expired. glad you headed for the basement!

To be honest, I might have been tempted to stay upstairs and look out the windows if only I had been able to see anything! The rain blotted out the sight of anything else, though, so I figured I may as well head to the basement with my little radio for a while. It was interesting weather.