My feather channel
Last Friday, the first day of Jazz Fest, the Weather Channel said 30% chance of showers moving to a 60% chance in the evening with severe thunderstorms expected on Saturday and an 80% chance of rain.
Before I stepped outside the birds were screaming as if someone was pulling their feathers off one at a time. Heidi, who is skittish with storms, didn’t want to leave the house and kept trying to run in someone else’s house. The water was quiet. The air still.
I ran into a bunch of people who said nah, it’s not going to rain. Tomorrow is the big rain.
I consulted the local weather through nola.org and it said no rain.
I looked at the radar and it said no rain.
IT POURED.
From now on, my weather channel is the animals and my own senses. I knew it was going to rain.