Overcoming your mother, nature...

06/30/11

5.7 miles
8:30 pm--45 minutes

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Yellow/brown sky at outset, windy with twigs, then branches falling on the path.

Lightning coming closer and closer, then the thunder getting closer and closer in time to the lightning, till several times I was worried that I might become electrocuted by nature.

Nicki watching weather reports of supercell tornadoes, then turning off computers, gathering flashlights, pondering why I chose to run now.

Then rain started (1 mi. from home), then torrential rain (.6 mi. from home), then hail (.4 mi), then big hail (.3 mi.) , then a bonk on the head (.2 mi) with hail which made me worry that I might be bludgeoned to death by nature and forced me to stop a block (.1 mi.) from home.

Then after thinking that the hail was diminishing in size and perhaps letting up, I made a run for it (literally the last 150 yds. around the corner and home) and was completely blinded by the amount of water falling through the air.

Also noticed, at that point, the stench of raw sewage flowing up from underground…yuck. But wow.

What a run!