After a day of lightning and thunderstorms yesterday we awoke to high humidity and fairly cool temperatures. I grew up in this climate, (actually, St. Louis is worse than Chicago when it comes to summer humidity and temperature) yet I'm having a difficult time with the humidity. Everything feels damp.....It's supposed to get hotter this afternoon - to the 90's, with more thunderstorms this evening. Yup, it just reminds me of the day we were driving back home to Illinois from Seattle when Trina was 2 - we looked at each other and wondered what the heck we were doing. That was the last time we made the drive. We moved the kids and cat to Seattle a year later.
Yesterday's earthquake on the east coast is still in the news. It was only a 5, but it must have been quite shallow, since it was felt so far away. I wonder if any research has been done on the depth of these things in different parts of the country. At home, on the west coast, it seems that our earthquakes are deeper, and do a lot more damage (at least the ones in California do more damage). The earthquakes in the Midwest and East seem to be felt a longer way away, yet do little damage except for a few shelves and things. Interesting. I think I'll keep our deeper earthquakes and they can keep things like lightning storms, thunderstorms and tornadoes.....a good trade, yes?
No pictures today - you just can't take a picture of moisture in the air.
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There was some funny reactions to the earthquake that I saw. One quote was "5.8? That's what us Californians stir our morning coffee with". Another is this:
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