Dateline, Mt. Sterling, KY
Longitude: -83.94502
Latitude: 38.06882
For those of you playing at home, here's a very quick update and Mea Culpa for a lack of updates in the past week.
It's been an array of weather here, from gorgeous sunny days to snow to biblical thunderstorms and not one but two days with tornado warnings necessitating a retreat to the basement of my cousin's place.
It was kind of reminiscent of the great Laguna fire in Southern California in 1994, where we'd watch it on the TV, then go outside and watch the line approaching.
Only this type involved torrential rain, then progressively larger hail, then beating feet to the basement where we peeked out the windows watching for the twister.
This last shot, although kind of fuzzy, shows the hail and was shot through a saturated screen at eye level to the ground looking out a basement window. After the worst of today's storm, the emergency responders shown in the top photo stopped on the other side of the decrepit bridge and cogitated for quite a while before deciding to ultimately cross it. You can see in the lower shot how swollen the creek was in the background.
We have no idea what they were doing, as they both turned around after a couple minutes and went back across the bridge. If you're really bored, you can see the whole sequence on my Mt. Sterling gallery on Picasa.
In between epic storms, I have been very busy between work, working out, chores, exploring the area, and interacting with some amazing Americana.
I need to figure out how to encapsulate some of these experiences into words, as a camera was not always at hand, a situation I am trying to rectify.
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