Okay....you guys can call me strange if you want....but since I'm a new kilt wearer I have this mental list of things I'd like to experience in a kilt. Last night I did "real shopping" for the first time which I covered in another post. However, later in the evening I did the severe thunderstorm and now I can cross that off my list.

There have been other evenings when I have gone out for a walk thinking we might have a severe thunderstorm and nothing happened. Last night I went out for a walk and took my umbrella and OH MY GOSH did we have a storm!

It hit when I was walking through an office complex at about 10:00 at night and for a while I was trying to walk INTO the wind with my umbrella but since the rain was coming right into my face I was holding the umbrella in front of me so I couldn't see where I was going.

Well, I sought shelter under a covered section of the parking lot - we have a lot of those here in the desert - and that kept me dry but of course I wasn't sheltered from the wind. Then the storm REALLY got bad. I have never seen such rain or wind. At one point the wind nearly knocked me over and I weigh 230 pounds.

In case you were wondering, I was wearing a tan UK mocker and it was drenched at this point so it wasn't going anywhere.

Anyway, I can cross "severe thunderstorm" off my list - I don't ever want to do that again!