The Days Of Summer Are Passing Fast . . . .

SHIP'S LOG:

Yesterday was actually a day that I had to drive around and do somethings and "day" is the operative word. While it actually felt "good" to be driving a car, the world, or at least the DOT, local and state, conspired against my getting anything done in a rapid manner. I would have thought that if you are going to rip up a street or twelve, that it might be nice, especially if they are main thoroughfares, that they might want to do so when there was little or no traffic. Alas, such was not the case.


I suppose that it was probably a matter of over-time pay for the police and the road crews and whatever crews there were down in the trenches that were being dug. Still in all it seemed that it would have been better for all concerned to have done the work in the evening after the beach and business traffic  had lessened. I certainly would have appreciated it for it seemed that every time I tried to get around a work site, I ran smack dab into another one. Very frustrating.

The boys  & girls at NOAA had a moderate success this morning. Yesterday they forecast rain/thunder & lightning during the late night which came right on cue. They also predicted severe thunder storms in the morning. It hit about 7:/30am and we had torrential rain and 40 knots of wind for about 30 minutes. All during it, NOAA had an up-to-date forecast going on and even got the exact minute of the the cessation of rain  in New London. The can be uncannily accurate and detailed in at-the-moment forecast but they still seem to have real difficulties with  forecasts that go beyond a few hours. I am not sure why, perhaps it is just the nature of he beast. They forecast for the day predicted thunderstorms at  10am and it was sunny and bright with nary a cloud in the sky. They predict more thunderstorms at one and 5pm. It is a crap shoot!