Hardware

Think about it; a winter draped in heavy snow. Spring, an explosive affair, like a month-and-a-half week in Paris. Summer, hot as a furnace, dry except for the thunderstorms, seeming to last forever.
And now, autumn, stormy, rainy, blazing with colours.
I've also seen more rainbows this year than in the last ten years put together. One was ten metres away, five metres off the ground in our back yard.

This is a sign that the children growing now will be the next "greatest generation".
They'll remember just this year, and they'll tell their children how when they were kids, all years was like this.

Let's hope it gives them power enough to stand up to the troubles ahead.

Outside.

It was a flash flood, sort of. Happened pretty quickly. According to the news, firefighters had to rescue a drowning guy trapped in the cellar. Doors were blocked by water & some junk. Luckily he got a cellphone.

We've been promised the underwater cars since the '50's, but this is no way to speed up the development. It's like developing flying cars by dropping them out of airplanes.

If they are dropped from an airplane, they will have a similar glide path to a baby grand piano

Must be fun to watch, as long as you aren't under the spot it picks to "land" :)