When droplets of water began appearing on the windshield while I was driving to work, I naturally assumed that a hose or some other part of the car had broken. I mean – it couldn’t be rain, could it?
I was still trying to figure it out when I noticed that the morning sun was, in fact, shielded by a cloud, the sort that looks like rain, or at least a hint of a possibility.
That’s probably what fell on the car, that little trace of a hint.
In a matter of seconds, the sun reemerged and the drops on the front glass had evaporated. There wasn’t even enough time to think about turning on the wiper blades. Thankful that the car was still running just fine, I tooled on in to the store.
Usually, the extreme heat comes later in the summer. Truth to tell, we are barely into the summer season officially and we’ve already had a long taste of triple digits. Broken Arrow officials scrambled over the weekend to repair a water pump that forced mandatory rationing for part of the day. Leaves are falling from underwatered trees and areas of grass that aren’t sufficiently hit by irrigation system watering are beginning to yellow.
We’ve had some rain over the past months in northeastern Oklahoma, enough to green up the plants over the spring months. Other parts of the country are still suffering drought, and Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas residents have faced raging fires that are the result of the dry conditions and the arid winds.
The 4th of July always produced some fireworks-related fires. Hopefully, those who plan to celebrate in that fashion will keep in mind the particularly dangerous enterprise it will be this year.
The up-side of the dry weather is the estate and garage sale season can proceed without rain-out. If you’re winding up your sale and find you’ve got books left over and don’t want to stack them back in the house, bring them by the store.
We’ll find a home for them.