We had a bit of sporty weather last night. Oh sure, the weather guys had slapped a “Tornado Watch”, which included the scare quotes, on us during the day, but lately it seems, they are mostly talking about a threat to the Twin Cities. We get included in the scare quotes just because we live in the same state and may have attended the State Fair once or twice in our lifetimes.
It was an odd day to begin with. Had my right ankle give me fits on Saturday, for no good reason, other than why not. Not so bad going down our stairway, but going up a big deal. And then, late afternoon, my ankle decided nothing was wrong and decided to play nice. Odd. Sunday rolls around and my body is telling me I might have been run over by a bus in my sleep. Everything but my ankle was complaining. I normally don’t stay home from church, but I chose to sit home just in case my ankle remembers yesterday’s antics.
Sent my wife off to worship our Lord and Savior, with her sister and mother, and fired up Zoom to participate that way, except the connection to Zoom stopped about 5 minutes into the service. This not being my first rodeo with the prince of the power of the air (Ephesians 2:2), I went to https://www.gty.org/library/sermons-library/48-5/paul-defends-his-apostleship-part-1 and listened to MacArthur go through Galatians 1:10-15, which is what our
Pastor Aaron is going through in our little church. My ankle did not complain once and the wife came home and told me it was a good service.
The rest of the day was quiet and sunny, as befitting a “Tornado Watch” type day. Evening shows up and I notice clouds beginning to gather. There was a big storm cell in northern Minnesota and the clouds were lining up north to south. It gets to around 8PM, the wife goes upstairs to read in bed. I am standing at the living room window, wondering how much battery life I still have in my drone. I had not charged it up from last time, but I checked and found I had 2 full bars out of 4, good enough.
Sent the drone up to about 150 feet and took a look around. The images are clickable and you can zoom in on them.
The sky had potential, but I did not have enough battery life to hang around and the mosquitos had begun to notice me. Brought the drone down to tree top level and the clouds had decided to get serious. It was getting hard to slap away the state bird and fly the drone, so I brought it in.
The images were OK, not great, just OK. It is now my bed time and I head upstairs. Not a peep heard from my ankle. Just as I close my eyes, I detect lightning and hear rumbles off to the east. And that continued for at least a half hour. I find out this morning there was even an F0 level tornado, somewhere in the Twin Cities. From what I recall, F0 level winds are what we would get for day time breezes in Kansas. Perspective, like punctuation, matters.