Weather Geek

I am a total weather geek and I'm OK with it. Dave picks on me a lot about how obsessed I am. On a good day, I check the weather about 50 times a day. Seriously. I also watch it on the news at 5pm and 10pm or 11pm and sometimes again at 5am. So tonight I am wicked excited because as soon as I got home the weather was on, but not for good reason.

My news channel, The Boston Channel (channel 5), is talking about thunderstorms so severe in Bristol & Plymouth counties that there is a possibility of tornadoes (meaning the weather people are seeing some rotation in the clouds). We are facing winds of 40+ miles an hour and torrential downpours. There is basically a little green on the radar with a whole lot of red and even some purple. Green = rain, Yellow = slightly more sever than rain, Red = storms, Purple = I don't want to be there. I've again posted a photo of my TV taken by my Blackberry.

Outside my window now the trees are eerily still, the sky is a cloudy & almost foggy grey and there is a light constant rumble in the sky. I am probably hearing the rain that the people in Brockton/Taunton are getting.

I used to be really afraid of storms when I was little. In fact, there was a storm one day while I was at elementary school so I went to the nurse's office to see if I could lay on one of the couches in the windowless room while it passed. Instead the crazy nurse lady had me sit on her lap and watch the storm pass by outside her window. Hello?! Were you trying to kill me!? Well, actually, she helped me. I like to watch storms now, but I am still afraid when I see them passing. I also remember to keep the deep relaxing complete breaths going to keep my mind calm (the rain has now started). I feel like watching the storms and tracking it on TV also helps me because it makes me feel like I have some sort of control over the situation even though, last time I checked anyway, I'm not Mother Nature and cannot control the weather.

Alright time to sign off and see how this all turns out (and weather I can get those 800s in tonight).

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Update 7/23/08 @ 10:30pm

As it turns out the storm pretty much died by the time it reached me. I was able to get in my 800s, but unfortunately had to do them along the beach instead of at the track. Apparently the school whose track I use decided to have a lacrosse camp instead of letting me workout on the track. It's OK. I will forgive you this once. After I got down to the beach and was about halfway through my workout the rain started again. It was a nice refreshing rain though and I really enjoyed running in it.

It's storming again now and I love sleeping with the rain and thunder so I'm heading off to bed now to rest my tired head and legs.