Weather Man

Never have I really experienced such extreme and rapidly changing weather in New York. Usually, it's either raining or snowing or dry, sunny or cloudy, hot or cold, but you never really see it happen or change because you can't see the New York sky.

So this evening, me and my roommate Taylor decided prepare ourselves a delicious meal of hot dogs and bean/corn salad (hey, we're poor) and eat it up on our roof deck. By the way, I love our roof. We have an amazing view, no one is ever up there (all of our neighbors are old and asian-they aren't quite the partying type), and it's just a great place to hang out when the weather is nice out.

Well....the weather turned out to be not so nice. We were expecting "scattered strong storms" this afternoon and evening, so it had been cloudy and a bit rainy for most of the afternoon. But we were sitting up on the roof and I saw this cloudy that was dark, ominous, and coming closer....QUICKLY. I mean....it wasn't just moseying (how do you even spell that strange word?) on through the sky like most normal clouds-it was coming straight for us at a scary fast pace. I pointed it out to Taylor, and she also noticed this storm cloud's alarming pace. It got closer and closer and closer and we were getting scaaaared. At the same time, we both thought and said "Get out your camera", and proceeded to take artsy-ish pictures of this literal freak of nature. Pictures to come. So once the storm head was about to come over our poor little roof deck, we felt this HUGE gust of wind that proceeded to gust harder until it threatened to knock over our water bottles and blow off our remaining feast items. We didn't really want to stick around to see what was going to happen as we didn't want to get blown off the roof's edge or get soaking wet, so we frantically grabbed all of our things and ran inside.

That was about twenty minutes ago and it hasn't started raining, but I predict torrential downpours. So much for doing anything on an already plain Monday night.