Like the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, longtime North Texans have repeatedly sung over the years, “We need the rain.” But enough is enough. After days of thunder that sounded like a 1950s bowling alley, flash-bashing lightning and torrents of rain that would have sunk Noah’s ark, folks have been SOS-ing Amazon for solar-powered weather radios, generators and storm shelters.
Give it up!
Still, there’s good news up ahead … sorta. Starting later Wednesday, the stormy calamities are headed elsewhere. Whew!
But arriving like those in-laws you thought you’d axed from your Christmas card list, an unwanted heat wave is on the front door. Blending the area’s saturated surroundings with way-above-user-friendly temperatures, the result will be North Texas feeling like a simmering soup that nobody wants to try.
One of the problems with this condition is that everyone is a bit dizzy from the past days. The result may be that the swift transition from chilly wet stuff to sweltering hot stuff will make folks forget that the 90-degree conditions could be damning for those in need of help. That applies to the elderly in homes without AC and cars that within minutes can become microwaves for children, pets and older folks.
But don’t put the storms in your memory bank. Word has it that starting next Monday, bumbershoots will salute the skies when the wet stuff returns.
Recalling a longtime weather caster, “North Texas is the Super Bowl of weather.” Touchdown, Mother Nature.