Yes. According to the news we are in the 'monsoon' season of July. Since 'monsoon' isn't really synonymous with the Midwest, there have been some setbacks. Like flooding -- flash flooding, and rain so heavy you can see the sheets deluging from the sky. I haven't seen weather like this since I visited Hawaii -- and that was in Hawaii. What comes with this weather are some pretty intense thunderstorms which over the past two days has cut our power three times. Considering the news I got from my sister about the streets just a mile away, flooding to a point where people are abandoning their cars, I can understand why things have been so crazy at my house. Mix Poseidon's attempt to rid Colorado of its land locked title, and Zeus duking it out with Thor over who makes the better lightning storms, it's no wonder that we've had power that comes and goes.

Today it's really nice and pretty, but a common saying in Colorado is "If you don't like the weather, wait 5 minutes." So it's anybody's guess if this will happen again. Since we aren't really designed to handle such flooding, the civic engineers here should have their hands full.

I blame this in part that, statewide, we have planted an exorbitant amount of trees over the years (since Colorado is primarily a prairie state, fields of grass typically outnumber the trees). So chances are good that the trees are making the weather -- more trees, more rain -- but I wasn't really expecting monsoons. Apparently no one did.

As a result my stories are backlogged. I'm a faster typist than at handwriting, and writing by candlelight just plain sucks big hairy donkey toes. I weep for the pre-Edison generations devoid of lightbulbs.
Either way, I'll be getting back to writing. Hopefully the power stays on.

Oh, and just in case any of you HTH fans were wondering: No, we did not loose any work during the outages -- just lots of time.

TTFN,
Tyvara