Tuesday; June 15
Last Wednesday evening we had a powerful storm come through our region. There was quite a bit of wind, some pretty intense thunder (it was raining too hard to see the lightning) and a lot of water. According to reports there was somewhere between 3 and 6 inches of rain in just a couple of hours. I have seen a lot of rain in my lifetime, but because of last week’s heat and humidity, this was a deluge! While this was a pretty impressive storm, I think the thing that astounded me was driving back to work 12 hours later. On Wednesday night the ditches were filled with water and any low laying area either became a pond or a roaring creek, but by Thursday morning I was hard-pressed to find any standing water. As I drove around that morning, I was struck by the fact that while the storm may have been impressive to me, to the land of Southern Maryland, it was just another rainstorm that had to be overcome and processed. In fact, if anything, what I noticed was how green everything had