Fallout 3 inspired the soundtrack to today's blog entry. This bobblehead at my desk from the video game possibly trigged the inspiration.
Into each life some rain must fall.
It must! Why isn't it falling in Oklahoma this month?
If you are wondering why someone in her 20s is quoting the lyrics of a 1944 song featuring Ella Fitzgerald, you can thank a recent video game called "Fallout 3" that used an older soundtrack to make light of the fact that the world is in a post-apocalyptic state.
To lighten our lack of rainfall situation, here's the song:
Here is the dire rain situation in map format:
However, it's a bit less of a downer when you see April and mid-May statistics combined:
The news isn't as good for Tulsa County. That's us sitting right there partially in orange, yellow and beige for having less than our normal rainfall total for the month.
To compound the situation, Gary McManus, associate state climatologist with the Oklahoma Climatological Survey, said that the state is having above-normal temperatures. How above normal?
The warmest March on record. The 10th-warmest April on record. Oklahoma's also on course to have one of the warmest Mays on record as well.
I feel like it would be a good time to interrupt this depressing news with more uplifting Fallout 3 music: once again, The Ink Spots, circa 1941!
If there is anything positive, the weather has seemed to be quite nice as of late, take-your-baby-out-in-the-stroller weather, not too hot, not too rainy, not too anything.
--Althea Peterson
