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Not much activity on Wednesday, the children 'painted' T-shirts, we
visited the store for some shopping, and got a take-away for lunch.
That's not so unusual here. The source was one of the few places where
they have some concern about 'single use plastic', but even here when
they were asked to omit cutlery, they didn't. At least some packaging was compressed board rather than plastic. The quality of some plastic take-away containers that we've had is truly astonishing, it could easily be used 4 or 5 times.
In the evening, the skies became very dark and rain started. There was lightning in the distance. It soon got closer, then the thunder started. The lights in the house were required well before sunset. When we finally retired to bed, the storms were still continuing, making staying asleep difficult. So far as I'm aware, there were no power drop-out.
Lee County has a severe weather warning system. It is a dedicated radio receiver, and is left plugged in all the time. It's mainly intended for tornados. Sometime during the night the alarm sound occurred, I woke and heard loud but indistinct talking. I got up to investigate. I only caught the last sentence of the message - "do not drive through flood water, turn back".
Wise advice, because you cannot tell if the road still exists under the flood water, or whether there are other unseen obstructions. I wonder if we had such a system in the UK, there would be fewer vehicles stuck in the ford - probably not, but you never know.
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