My pic makes local weather news photos

I have long since been a weather nut, as my Sister Sharon would tell you. I am sure she will remember me leaving the confines of a perfectly good shelter at home in Kalamazoo to maybe get a look at a real tornado. Photographing the awesome beauty along my travels of storm clouds and scenery is my favorite sideline. Weather is just one of the majestic and sometimes tragic bounties of driving interstate. Very recently this spring I experienced driving for four days and not being able to get out of the RAIN. My wipers were so tired that they were leaving rubber tracks on my windshield that had to be scrubbed off. Unusual, yes, since I move from state to state, I am able to drive in and out of storms. The flooding I have seen was indescribable, this year. I travel these same roads over and over, and IL, IN, AR and the Mississippi River, had some of the worst that I have seen. There were literal lakes, once farm land, where rivers had flooded their banks. Often the flooding reached the main highways. I am currently off the truck, awaiting news on the probable surgery on my knee. Still taking photos from my new digs, I submitted one to a local Dallas station and they have posted it on their site of our most recent storms. You can view it here. By the way, I decided it might be time to take cover after lightning revealed this cloud!