Added all together, today bordered on surreal…
For the first time ever, I had to fill out an accident report on a subordinate. Oh, I’ve had them filled out on me, like when a six-year-old threw a chair at me years ago, but I’ve never done one on anyone else. Anyway, after the 10am break I noticed that one of my subs had an icepack on her leg. I asked her why and she took it away to reveal that she’d been bitten by something a good half a dozen times. “It’s hot and prickly” she noted. The woman who sits next to her reported having found a spider on herself only minutes before, so we decided it was probably spider bites. Spider bites usually itch rather than heat up like that (she said it was like touching a stovetop :eek: ) so we had to go talk to the building manager in case she needs medical treatment due to this.
And we soon learned that other people have been seeing spiders this week too. Apparently they’ve moved in to the building to escape the weather. The building manager promised that facilities will do “something” about them. From what people said about them, they seem to be these spiders that I still haven’t identified three years later.
Then…
It finally began to rain around lunch time. They’d been predicting occasional thunder storms with some heavy rain. The power went out during one of the thunder storms, but it came back on again. The storms kept coming, though, one after another, all afternoon. It was a little eerie because every once in a while the storm sounds would completely cease and the rain would stop. Then, minutes later, a new storm would arrive.
Then…
Around 2:30 there came a strange, unfamiliar noise, as if large men were running across the roof of the building. Hail! Golf ball sized. I’ve never seen hail that large before. There are no windows where we are and everyone (70+ people) got up to go see what was happening, mostly to fret about our poor cars. TPTB didn’t even say anything, they just accepted that people needed to go look. Fortunately it didn’t lead to any broken glass in the parking lot, which is a damn good thing since a lot of car insurance companies exclude glass from our policies in NH because there are too many claims in the mountains due to falling rocks.
Then…
At 3:30 it was announced by TPTB that there were tornado warnings in my town and the ones surrounding. Tornados! This is New Hampshire…aside from a freak tornado at a golf course every couple of decades, we don’t get tornados. Luckily, none actually materialized.
So, did anyone else have an off day too?
