and now, a weather break

1. i've never seen a weather report like this! it's been near-constant thunderstorms, day and night, for the past week and a half. it's in the 70's and 80's, day and night-- it never really cools down. how crazy is 

that thunderstorm-with-sun weather symbol?

this is what the sky looked like when i left the gym Sunday mid-morning. so many thunderstorms!

this is the day of the tornado warning, my birthday (a week ago today). i was studying around noon on my birthday when this alert popped up on my phone (and every other cell phone in the coffee shop). i was right across the street from the fire station, and they told us to go home if we could. i hopped into my car, and Sarah & i turned on the news. the tornado touched down about 20 miles outside of the city.

it started to get really dark.

like, really, really dark. it's hard to tell how dark it was, but the streetlights & bridge lights were still on around 1 PM. this is from my balcony. it was eerie. and then it started to rain really hard, and the wind picked up. the house isn't very well sealed, so there was rain coming in around the windowpanes. we unplugged all of the electronics, and waited for it to be over!

all in all, pretty exciting. my car was fine, and we haven't seen storms quite as crazy since. i'm getting used to the nearly constant thunder rumbling, hot sticky air, and flashes of lightning!