Wind, Rain and Raccoons!

Hey, how would you like to step onto your back porch and run head on into a full grown Raccoon? Well that's exactly what happened to me last night! Bill stopped by again to let us know that he was going to stay in town for a while longer, but he caught us just when we were about to leave for the store. He didn't care to go with us, so we let him stay at our house until we returned. About an hour or so later a big storm hit eastern Michigan, we stopped into our local Burger King restaurant to ride it out. The wind was blowing, lightning st cracking everywhere and a couple of tornadoes sprung up near Brighton, which is about 60 miles west of here. When the rain let up somewhat we left for home (burgers in our stomachs of course) and our main street (Gratiot)was flooded really badly. Several cars were stalled in deep water and police lights were flashing everywhere. I was glad that I had decided to take our van this time and it rides high above any water. Some times you just guess right! Anyway back here at our house Bill had been sitting outside on our front porch waiting for our return when the storm hit, he got caught right in the middle of it and got soaked! He said that the lighting scared the heck out of him and he had never seen anything like it in California. Well he stayed longer than expected and derided himself before leaving. It was about twelve or so and I walked him to his vehicle, we chatted for a while and then he left. I walked back to the house and entered our back porch to go into the house through our back door. Just when I stepped onto the porch, a full grown Raccoon was there and needless to say, it freckled out when it saw me. It ran crazily all around the porch trying to find a way out. It was knocking everything over and finally it saw that the door open, so it ran out and into the darkness. Boy, what a day yesterday was, it had everything. I hope that today is just one of those boring nothing happening days. I don't think I could take another one like yesterday!