Spring Storms

Although the forecast is for warm temperatures and sunny skies this weekend, we have had some pretty drenching and violent rain storms over the past few weeks.  Monday the west side of Denver got golf ball size hail, which smashed skylights and windshields over a wide swatch of ground.  The Colorado Mills Mall in Golden has had to close until further notice due to flooding caused by so many smashed skylights. Wednesday was pretty soggy too, although I thought it kind of funny that Denver's East High School choose that day to turn on the fountain in front of their school, as seen in the photograph above.  The state is usually bone dry during the summer months and the threat of forest fires is ever present, so hopefully the moisture will help mitigate that fire danger.  At my part-time job at a local grocery store, I have been driven on several occasions to wear a banana yellow rain slicker when I deliver groceries out to the customers in their cars, and am a figure of fun to the other employees when I walk back through the store. No problem.  Never let humiliation get in the way of getting the job done, I always say.