This morning as I was listening to the radio during breakfast, three alarms went off nearly simultaneously. First was the weather alert on the radio (We call him Lars because his electronic voice sounds Swedish to our American ears—with apologies to my Swedish friends). This was a severe thunderstorm alert for local counties. Second was our land line phone, with the same alert, this time in a neutral mid-western voice, with the same message. Third was my mobile phone, ditto. Five minutes later the same triple sequence occurred, but the message was to expect severe flooding in low-lying areas.
Please understand that I am grateful for adequate warnings of these serious events, and I'm equally grateful that (so far) I am not experiencing the terrible results of severe weather. But sometimes there is just TMI.
Now it is raining heavily, and I think the worst of the weather pattern has moved on by. Here is what it looked like out the back door at sunrise. Shades of gray.
And modified to 4 shades of gray.