NATIONAL Weather service

WE WILL REGALE FUTURE GENERATIONS WITH STORIES OF THOSE HYSTERICAL DAYS. THE SKY WOULD DARKEN AND THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WOULD CATERWAUL ITS DIRE WARNINGS. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING UNTIL 5:15 P.M. FOR THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES. BLIZZARD WATCH IN EFFECT UNTIL THURSDAY NIGHT. HEAT WAVE IN THE TRI-COUNTY AREA. HAIL POSSIBLE. LIGHTNING PROBABLE. LOWER LYING AREAS MAY FLOOD. IN COURIER FONT THE WARNINGS WOULD SHRIEK FROM WEB PAGES AND PHONES. IT NEVER SEEMED TO HAVE AN INSIDE VOICE. A HIGH TIDE WAS AS URGENT AS A TORNADO.

Things are cooler now, like the first evening breeze after the cold front has stomped through in a blast of thunder. Now we get our warnings with a measured caution. Be vigilant but no need to panic. Watch the skies. Cover plants or move them indoors. Drink plenty of fluids. Head for the basement.

i wonder soon

if it will all turn to some

avant garde poetry

if the nws will forget the

shift key forever

and warn us

like e.e. cummings

if cold fronts will

anthropomorphize

if every lightning strike

will be a stab of irony

if every falling leaf

will symbolize

loneliness