Rain

Last night around 3am it rained perhaps the hardest I have ever heard in my life. True, we sleep about 3 ft under a metal roof, but dang was it coming down. THe storm lasted only ten minutes at most, during which time I could not sleep. It was almost deafeningly loud. I think it may have hailed at the end - but I didn't see hail in the morning, and I don't know that it was warm enough for the hail to melt.

Thor (the cat) was fine during the whole storm. I think I was more scared than he was. He doesn't get scared of rain or thunder. I'm not sure what he gets scared of these days.

But me...For some reason, probably because I was half-asleep and it was 3 in the morning, I was thinking about how horrible it would be if it rained like that continuously forever. And of course in my vision of the future it was always dark out. Then I realized this was silly.

After the storm left as suddenly as it had come, Thor hopped up onto the bed with a meow and cuddled with me under the covers, his furry little face resting up against mine. And it was nice and safe and quiet again.