No thunderstorms last night after all.  I stood out on my front porch and watched the front come in and all we got was a few periods of heavy rain and that was it.  After I went to bed I could hear the wind start to pick up, and throughout the night I could hear random noises from the alleyway.  A few plastic trash cans being kicked around.  Someone’s aluminum awning getting smacked by something carried along by the wind.  No thunder, no lightning.  Bah.   Central Maryland never gets any really interesting weather.  Which is good I guess because the interesting stuff tends to be a tad destructive.

According to the news the wind last night actually cased a partial collapse of an abandoned rowhouse.  But I doubt the wind is giving itself a high five over it.  Abandoned rowhouses in the worst of the city neighborhoods look like they’d collapse if someone stared at them too hard.  There are also the usual reports of power outages you get with any high wind situation.  But nothing major that I can tell.  It’s like the Appalachians take the kick out of anything that gets going on the plains.