Partly Cloudy With A Chance of DOOOOOM

Today's forecast was partly cloudy, 0% chance of rain, as it normally is between mid-March and late October in Southern California.

I thought it was weird enough when I looked out the window around noon, and there was a freak rainstorm downtown with raindrops so large that I thought it was hailing.

But out in the Inland Empire (L.A.'s multitudinous eastern suburbs), it got a little hairier:

Photo by Michael Ritter of the AP

That's a fairly unusual sight for SoCal, and it seems a slightly ominous portent. I'm just hoping I don't look out tomorrow and see locusts.

I Don't Know Why I Find This Amusing

I think because I'm so tired I'm finding everything funny...

Earlier tonight, a tornado went right over the headquarters of the National Weather Service, which, among many many other things, tracks tornadoes and tries to predict where they're going to go.

That must have been a fun realization: "Steve, how's that twister you're tracking?"

"Uh...RUN!"

I wonder if the NWS is like the White House, where there's an entire underground bunker that allows the place to continue to function in the event of an emergency.

That'd kind of suck if they were unable to track the tornado that was coming for your quiet Arkansas town since they were too busy...well, running for their lives.

Again, I have no idea why this entire scenario I've constructed in my head makes me giggle, but it does. I need sleep.