Sweet Catastrophe

The weather was crazy tonight! The clouds started rolling in really quickly around 7. It didn’t take long for the sky to become pitch black and lightning started going nuts! It’s been a while since I’ve seen so many powerful lightning strikes in such a short amount of time.

I was down in lumber and we lost power to the rollup door, and the lights under the shelter. Right after that, one of the power surges knocked out all of my registers. Of course, the registers were fine in the front of the store, but I have 5 customers waiting. Luckily they were all pretty cool about it; most of them just went back to shopping.

It was so rough, one of the strikes actually set off a car alarm in the parking lot….and then we lost all the lights out there!

Through all of this–no rain! It took forever, but it finally starting raining at 8:30 and we got a good bit of rain. If it keeps up, eventually there’ll be enough water back in the lakes and rivers and my dad can stop complaining that he can’t go boating ’cause everything’s so dry.

1-10 on a Saturday in Lowe’s is just ridiculous. For some reason I’ve been feeling really off all day. I think the best way to describe it would be that I feel like one would normally feel after being sick (puking sick) for a day or two. My whole body feels like it’s in a minor cramp. I’m really hungry, but I have no appetite. I hope it’s just random and not something slowly settling in. I’ve got to work at 8 am tomorrow and I’m certainly not looking forward to doing that in sick-mode.