Voyager

Pop up storm from my backyard. It is, however, in the wrong quadrant. Right is north in the photo, so it's moving away from us. Got a few raindrops out of it.

With all the storms around, north, east, and south, I'm going to somehow end up in a stabilized atmosphere with only a few rain showers. Seen it too many times not to believe it to be true.

I fell in...to a burning ring of fire...

Well, we ended up with descent rain hit, but nothing in the way of thunder or wind. 0.44"

Everyone must be sleeping or partying because there's a heck of a line of storms moving across central PA, and no one's talking about it.

It's amazing how fast skies cleared here once the rain stopped. Ended up with .79"

Got .61" here so far. No lightning, thunder, or wind. Just a steady moderate to heavy at times rain.

My doc started me off on Dilaudid for three days, then backed off to Percocet for I think two weeks, then Tylenol.

Oh, good luck my friend. I had that done back in 2020, and I hope I never have to do it again. I was out of work for six months after that surgery for recovery and physical therapy, but that was because of the physical nature of my work. You may be able to return to work faster. One thing to be prepared for is pain. It was the most painful therapy I've ever gone through. One word of advice my surgeon gave me was to stay ahead of the pain. Don't try to man up. If he/she doesn't give you a time estimate of when the nerve block will wear off, ask. That nerve block is awesome, but when it wears off, you'll know it. When I came home after surgery, I was like "that wasn't so bad". Yeah right...lol You'll want to take your first Vicodin, Percocet, or whatever they give you an hour before, because if you try to play catch up, you won't.

Got 1.31" from yesterday's storms. The rain was incredibly intense at times in that afternoon storm. Windshield wipers on high speed couldn't keep up. I got the truck parked before the worst hit (I still got soaked going from the truck to the shop and then the car, though), but the ride home in the car was intense with the rain and the flooded roads.

91/75 now. Heat index 102.

87/73 in Tamaqua at 10:30am...

Everything west of the Susquehanna seems to be dying out as it moves northeast. How can full sunshine with this heat and humidity be so stable as to kill storms?

90/76 in Tamaqua currently. It's a steam bath outside...

Tank about an NEPA to South Central screw zone...sheesh.