its raining, its pouring...

Atlanta does everything big. When we get out of a drought, we really get out of a drought. Experts declared that we were out of the drought weeks ago, but Atlanta continued to be hammered with storms. Friday night was Braves home opening night and it was hit hard. The game started on time but only got 3.5 innings in before the rain was too much. During this time hail and rain were coming so hard that you could not see across the field, let alone very far in front of you. We left after about an hour. The game started back up after a two hour rain delay. The game didn’t end until 1:30AM.

Monday morning, after I had already left for work, the storms came again, with powerful winds knocking over trees, in turn knocking out power lines. Our house was one of a mere 250,000 Atlanta customers who had no power. Apparently a tree fell on a transformer by our house. Anyway, they attempted to fix it, however there still wasn’t enough power be sent to the house, so somehow, half the house worked, the other half didn’t. And yes, you guessed it, my room did not have power. It was ok though, I got in about a 90 minute nap and even started reading a book, something I hadn’t done in over a month. Showering with a flashlight was kind of fun too, something I’ve never done.

That nap may have been a bad thing though, because last night I could not fall asleep at all. Tossed and turned for hours, finally falling asleep around 1AM, only to be awaken by lightning, thunder, and pounding rain at 4:45. At one point my bed shook from the thunder. No joke. It took me quite awhile to fall back asleep, so 6:20 came way too early this morning.

Anyway, it was a sports weekend here in Georgia, with the Braves home opener, University of Georgia’s spring game, and Master’s all in the same weekend. I was lucky enough to go to two of the three, making my first trip to Athens.


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