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Thursday, August 4, 2016

Adventures of a Simple Mind

It doesn't rain in Tennessee 

When it rains in Indiana dark clouds gather and threaten the pedestrian. It begins with a light two-minute warming of rain sprinkling the sidewalks and pavement. Then it cuts loose! Rain pours from above soaking the buildings and vegetation. As storm drains backs up street flood. The next day everyone in Indiana is talking about the bad weather. But it doesn’t rain like that in Tennessee.

Rain in the mountains is noisy and I never actually got wet. The rain would hit the canopy with a glorious drumming. The heaviest of this dripped down leaf to leaf until the shattered particles sprinkled lightly on the ground. Smaller rain drops took even longer to reach the forest floor or sidewalk. So although it sounded like it was raining; it really wasn’t. One major problem with this delay effect from canopy was that I got dripped on long after it actually stopped raining.

So in Tennessee you can get wet when it isn’t raining and stay dry when it is. 

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