No more Shawn?

What the heck happened? My favorite weather man is no longer on KELO. I want to know the back story. I sure hope it was his decision and that he wasn't canned. I know Shawn is a bit of a corn flake, but I'd much rather get my weather from him than someone who's doing weather because there was nothing open in sports. I enjoy him and I'm sad to know that he's no longer around.

Speaking of weather, yesterday I got caught in one heck of a thunderstorm. I decided to run to Brookings to get some groceries. Jack only had a half a can of formula left. It's $18 something in Brookings and $23 something in Sioux Falls. Of coarse you can get it here - for the lucky price of $26. We needed a few other things, so I loaded up the kids and headed to Brookings.

It was sprinkling when I left town, but nothing major. You could see that it was very dark to the North. I filled up with gas and we were on our way. I don't think that Nathan has ever ridden through a thunderstorm before. I myself forgot how loud it was. Claire was scared. She HATES the car wash and I think the storm reminded her of the car wash.

The storm was pretty strong. I had to slow down to about 25 to 30 mph a few times. I even decided to pull over for a couple of minutes. I know the corn needed a drink, but the wind was blowing so hard the corn was almost laying down. Eeek!

After getting back on the road, it wasn't long before my windshield wipers collided with each other. DOH! I pulled over quickly, got out in the pouring rain and tried to pry my wipers from each other. I got them apart, got back in the van, turned on the switch and BAM - they were tangled again. Crap! I got out again and got them unstuck. I was drenched! I called Justin and he came to help me. Good thing I put my hair in a ponytail before we left the house. I would have been a complete mess.

Justin got my wipers fixed and I was on my way. I love weather, but you guys, that just wasn't fun!