I drove home in a roaring thunder storm, inundated with sheets of rain so heavy I could see only the pair of back lights ahead of me. There were long, jagged bolts of lightning every 2 - 3 minutes and thunder that crashed through the sound of the road as I drove. Either that or the sky lit up with distant lightning like a light bulb being turned on and off.
It was a stressful and difficult ride, made worse by a migraine that had pounded through my head all day. My head was as ready to explode as the world around me. I drove slowly and tried to avoid the washed out parts of the road.
I came home to a scene of ruin in at least parts of my garden. Several of my snapdragons had been ripped out literally by the roots and lay flat against the ground. One was either dead or nearly so. A few survived, but I think most of my snaps are goners. Everything else is drenched and beaten down. No hail, but horrific nonetheless.
This should not be happening: not here, in the American northeast. We get rain, of course, but not like this and not accompanied by incessant - and violent - thunder and lightning. Tampa, Florida, okay, but not Boston, Massachusetts. We don't get that kind of weather and neither or eco-system nor our physical infrastructure can take it. This is not a tropical region with regular hurricanes and storms. Plants do not get ripped out by the roots here. It just doesn't happen.
Well...just didn't happen, I guess.
I took this video about a week ago:
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