Welcome To Case's Column
Let me say a big welcome to all of you for joining me here. I'm going to call these blog meetings Case's Column. I wanted to use "Corner", but that was already taken.
Since 2008, it's been a real privilege to come on here and share some of my life with you, and it's a big world where we live.
In these blogs, I'll just speak whatever is on my mind, but we will be playing within the rules here. I may pick a particular topic, point out an event, or shoot the breeze. I'm a little bit of an essayist at times, so I'll just speak what's on my mind, and I might tell a story or two. Or, I might spew out an opinion or three. There will be some serious moments, some tender, some poignant, but there will also be those moments that you'll just bust out laughing. But, hopefully, everything will be in good fun here. And, of course, there's a place below for your comments and thoughts as we go along here. So feel free to join me for the ride -- I sure as heck hope I'm doing this right and not making any mistakes.
Thanks for taking your time in reading Case's Column. Hopefully, you'll enjoy being entertained by it as much as I've enjoyed putting these writings together. And thanks for the time you spend in City-Data.com, where it's great to be alive!
Regards,
case44
Let me say a big welcome to all of you for joining me here. I'm going to call these blog meetings Case's Column. I wanted to use "Corner", but that was already taken.
Since 2008, it's been a real privilege to come on here and share some of my life with you, and it's a big world where we live.In these blogs, I'll just speak whatever is on my mind, but we will be playing within the rules here. I may pick a particular topic, point out an event, or shoot the breeze. I'm a little bit of an essayist at times, so I'll just speak what's on my mind, and I might tell a story or two. Or, I might spew out an opinion or three. There will be some serious moments, some tender, some poignant, but there will also be those moments that you'll just bust out laughing. But, hopefully, everything will be in good fun here. And, of course, there's a place below for your comments and thoughts as we go along here. So feel free to join me for the ride -- I sure as heck hope I'm doing this right and not making any mistakes.
Thanks for taking your time in reading Case's Column. Hopefully, you'll enjoy being entertained by it as much as I've enjoyed putting these writings together. And thanks for the time you spend in City-Data.com, where it's great to be alive!
Regards,
case44
Having Sleep Interrupted By A Lightning Show
Posted 06-25-2017 at 10:37 AM by case44
Friday night into Saturday this past week proved that, in life, there are no guarantees. That's especially when one tries to get needed sleep for one more work day. At 11:58 p.m. on Friday night, it look one loud crash of lightning to interrupt what had previously been a good day of weather and a good night's sleep (so far), and, thus, proceeded to bring a few hours of change to the weather landscape in North Texas.
You should have seen it. Lightning strikes were taking place all around the area where my apartments were, with violent cloud-to-ground strikes and loud crackles of thunder. Such were setting off car alarms in the parking lots. About three minutes after I was awakened by the rumbles, and after checking my computer for weather radar to see what was happening, the fire alarm in my bedroom goes off. Now, it was just the one in my bedroom (as the one in the living room did not go off), but apparently, a few other units had a similar thing happen. There was, of course, no fire (thankfully), but the intensity of the brief lightning strikes was enough to set things off. Maintenance was quick to turn off the fire alarms from afar within five minutes, and things would get settled again. I hurriedly put on my clothes and moved my car under the awning from the open, and just in time for a few raindrops to fall. A few minutes later, all the thunder and lightning subsided and I would be back to sleep around 12:30.
I would not have minded if the thunder was soft and the lightning had stayed in the sky; that, in and of themselves, would have been fine, even if I weren't awakened by it all. But the frightening lightning made everybody's lives interesting for a good twenty minutes around the ol' apartment enclave. The rains were forming just a few miles from my apartment as a cell grew and quickly moved to the south. That's what happens when heat from the day mixes with moist air masses in the overnight. As quickly as the loud clashes of thunder awakened me and others in the complex, I just as quickly had eventually gotten back to sleep. I'd survived the experience and the work day to follow (my last before vacation, no less) that I could say that I can breathe easily now.
Texas weather is a funny thing sometimes.
You should have seen it. Lightning strikes were taking place all around the area where my apartments were, with violent cloud-to-ground strikes and loud crackles of thunder. Such were setting off car alarms in the parking lots. About three minutes after I was awakened by the rumbles, and after checking my computer for weather radar to see what was happening, the fire alarm in my bedroom goes off. Now, it was just the one in my bedroom (as the one in the living room did not go off), but apparently, a few other units had a similar thing happen. There was, of course, no fire (thankfully), but the intensity of the brief lightning strikes was enough to set things off. Maintenance was quick to turn off the fire alarms from afar within five minutes, and things would get settled again. I hurriedly put on my clothes and moved my car under the awning from the open, and just in time for a few raindrops to fall. A few minutes later, all the thunder and lightning subsided and I would be back to sleep around 12:30.
I would not have minded if the thunder was soft and the lightning had stayed in the sky; that, in and of themselves, would have been fine, even if I weren't awakened by it all. But the frightening lightning
made everybody's lives interesting for a good twenty minutes around the ol' apartment enclave. The rains were forming just a few miles from my apartment as a cell grew and quickly moved to the south. That's what happens when heat from the day mixes with moist air masses in the overnight. As quickly as the loud clashes of thunder awakened me and others in the complex, I just as quickly had eventually gotten back to sleep. I'd survived the experience and the work day to follow (my last before vacation, no less) that I could say that I can breathe easily now. Texas weather is a funny thing sometimes.
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