thunder = music

I awoke this morning to the sound of thunder,
How far off I sat and wondered,
Started humming a song from 1962,
Ain't it funny how the night moves. . .
(with apologies to Bob Seger)

We did wake up yesterday morning to the sound of rain and thunder, really good boomers from somewhere east of Tampa. Rain, rain, come on down. We just had the driest March and April in 100 years. I'm not normally going to comment on the weather here, but we have wildfires all over the state right now (let's all join in singing "The Fire Down Below," another Seger song). To see a "live" map of Florida showing how much of the state is up in flames, go here:
http://flame.fl-dof.com/wildfire/tools_fmis.html#FMIS
and then scroll down to "FMIS Mapping System" and click on that. (It takes a minute or three to download the map. Be patient.) The icons will give you an exaggerated impression of how extensive the fires are, but not by much. With a lot of dry brush and fools setting fires by accident or on purpose, we are going to have a long hot summer in several senses of the term. (Cue to "Have you Ever Seen the Rain?" by John Fogerty.)