("Jim Burns" wrote)
d'oh! I thought you might have had a tordado today. It was the first time
in a very long time that the nexrad had a large batch of purple at the
center of that storm. Did you get any hail? As usuall it peatered out
before it got here, we only got damp... not enough rain to wet a frogs
back.


We didn't get hail, but did get steady rain most of the day. 1.5 inches up
here in Blaine, MN (North metro). Big drops. We had many "thunder boomers,"
along with some of the longest "thunder growlers" I've ever heard. Not many
lightning bolts.

http://www.kare11.com/video/player.aspx?aid=30514&bw=
Local weather today. Finally ...rain!!

The BWCA, up on the Canadian border, still needs rain. Fires. 25,000 acres
and growing.

"The fire is in the "blowdown area" in and around the BWCAW, where a fierce
windstorm July 4, 1999, knocked down millions of trees over 600 square
miles."


I was tempted to pull up the video of "Man loses pounds, gains attention
by mowing grass" thinking maybe you had something to do with it.. but I
thought better

He's about 2 miles from here, in Coon Rapids. Lucky for me I live in a
Townhouse Association that mows the grass for us. g


Montblack