Thursday, August 24, 2023

crashing

Opening convocation today. The energy was a bit off without families in the stands, but clapping students into college life through a faculty gauntlet is still fun. 

Also a ton of meetings; I crashed hard at my seventh meeting of the day at 4:00 pm. I was so afraid I was going to fall asleep right at the conference table, I started to rearrange the stickers on my computer.

At came to dinner and when I was dropping them off at their place we got caught in a terrific thunderstorm: trees falling onto the road, tornado warning, the works. Visibility was so bad as the rain was just sheeting across the windshield--there was no way to tell where I was driving, if the river had flooded etc. And nowhere to pull over safely either.

Terrific crashes in our backyard too, I guess morning will show us the damage.

Pic: Before the storm--Nu, Big A, & At at dinner; Max and Huck are under the table. We're planning a trip to a state park for Big A's big birthday in two months!

5 comments:

Nicole said...

Oh my goodness, the thunderstorm. That is terrifying, and so scary to be out in it! Hope there is not too much damage.

StephLove said...

That sounds like a bad storm. Hope the damage isn't too bad.

Gillian said...

Drive safe and find a place to stop.

NGS said...

ooof. Our town is still cleaning up after a bad storm a few weeks ago - I hope you managed to escape most of it unscathed!

maya said...

Thanks for the good wishes, everyone. Not *too* terrible, thankfully!

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