Wish I could get paid to be wrong all the time!

Are weather people this bad everywhere, or is it just here? Seriously, do they even need a degree to forecast the weather? The best they can do is look outside and tell me what it is doing right now, and even then they are wrong 50% of the time. And they get paid to do this.

So the forecast for today was sunny, about 75 degrees, with rain moving in late tonight with possibility of severe storms (great). The plan was to walk to the park--a good mile+ hike--play, and walk back home. I would get exercise, the girls would get to play, it is a win-win situation, right? Sounds like a perfect Monday to me.

Yeah, doesn't work well in the rain. Did they once mention rain as a possibility for today? Um, no, not until it was actually happening. And right now its not just raining, its thundering and coming down hard. I guess my exercise will be the treadmill and the girls can continue to drive me crazy by "playing".

Friday's flood waters went down pretty quickly. All the roads were back open on Saturday and you could even get into Super WalMart without your motor boat. This town is so brilliant--their development plans involve building large, multi-million dollar projects on flood plains. Super WalMart is just one example, the other example is the new pool they are putting in. Even though there isn't anything built yet, it was full of water on Friday. Brilliant. And then they won't let development happen on the north side of town where we live because even though its within city limits, its considered a different school district. The city doesn't want any of their precious tax money going somewhere else. There were plans for a grocery store, bank, gas station/car wash and Dr office less than a mile from our house which would've been awesome. The town balked and now at most we will get a grocery store and a gas station--still better than nothing. The sad thing is our neighborhood park is intrinsically tied to this development so they can't start building it until they figure out what else is going in. The equipment has already been purchased and is sitting in storage. Again, how freaking brilliant is that? We actually saw that as a selling point when we moved--a park within walking distance of the house. Hopefully we will be here long enough to see it happen.

Okay, enough political rambling and complaining about the weather. I sound like a 75 year old man or something!