We Must Be Livin' Right

Weather is all important here in the “hearland” as our local news calls this part of the country where Illinois, Missouri, and Kentucky come together. Last evening, severe weather was predicted, and did appear for some parts of the area. There were high winds and torrential rainfall scattered all around us. You would think any rain would be good rain considerin the drought conditions hereabouts, but not so. If the rain falls too fast and too hard, it really doesn’t help. The dry ground can’t absorb it and it runs off, creating gullies in the fields, and washing away valuable topsoil. It clogs the creeks with silt, and floods low-lying roadways. The accompanying winds take down power lines and uproot trees that are already unstable from standing all summer in dry ground. There isn’t a town in this county with more than 3,000 folks in it and only one that’s even close to that. Small towns, for some reason, are quick to pass judgement on each other for anything at all that happens. A well-known sayin whenever bad luck or trouble arises for one town, but not the others is “Y’all must not be livin right.” The way the weather played out yesterday evenin, I had to grin to myself when that sayin ran through my mind. Out here in my neck of the woods we did not get a single drop of rain, and the winds were tolerable. Plus look at the show Mother Nature put on right outside my door…