There's bitches by it, they're all up on it.

Talk about weather. My weekend in Madison and Milwaukee was pretty much dominated by any number of Tornado warnings, flash flood warnings, severe thunderstorms, damaging winds, and the whole deal.

I went down to Madison on Saturday to get together with a couple friends from school before I had to meet up with the few 'Hatters that were coming to our gig in New Glarus (singing for Moldy's Grandparents' 50th wedding anniversary). I got down there at about 1:00, and it was sunny and extremely hot. Went and checked out my friend's apartment before he had to work, then met another guy for lunch at the Union. As it turned out, we would end up spending most of our time in the Union. The tornado warnings started kicking in around 2:30 or 3:00, and every time we went outside we were forced back in either by pouring rain or official people telling us to take shelter. By the time I met up with the 'Hatters at 5:00, it was pouring. We headed down to New Glarus and did our 6-man gig, for which I was stand-in VP. It was a bit rough, to say the least. After the gig, we went back to our Hotel. We had been bought 4 rooms under the impression that the majority of the group would be there. Instead, we had 4 rooms to split among 6 people, and we didn't even use one of them. At least we scored a sweet complimentary breakfast this morning. Made to order omelettes, mini pancakes, pastry things, general Swiss deliciousness.

So we left the Hotel and most everybody headed back to Madison while I made my way to Milwaukee to get together with Andy and Nate. It wasn't raining on the way there, but apparently the majority of the Milwaukee area was flooded pretty bad last night. Andy and I went to Kopps for a lunch of a gigantic double cheeseburger and fries. Then, of course, there was Smash to be had. And a couple hours of later, it's time for me to head home. No sooner did I get out of Milwaukee but the highway traffic is going 40 miles and hour because the water is coming down in sheets and running down the highway like a river. That continued for about half an hour, and then the rest of the trip was just rain and lots of lightning.

Talk about weather.