It’s done nothing but rain here for the last few days. Yest erdays weather was the worst! The down pour was torrential last night. We received over a foot of hail in some areas and nearly 2 inches of rain (leaving everything saturated as hell). We even had two tornados touch down just west of town.

The rain continues to fall as I write this.

Which brings me to the odd thing I saw this morning. The back window of the house behind me was wide open when I went out for coffee and a cigarett at 5 am. Then, I noticed that the dogs who live there were running in and out of the side door of the house. Normally they’re kept in the fenced yard.

Odd.

I could see no one was at home, and between the back window and side door being wide open, it caused me some concern. So…. I called our local Crime Check number and reported it.

5 minutes later, there was a police crusier at my front door. They wanted me to point out the house because I didn’t know the houses address when I called them. The officer drove around the block and I watched from my deck as he and another officer walked around the house, looked in the open window, then went in the open door (with guns drawn).

How very exciting!

They stayed in there for about 15 minutes, then came out and attempted to round up the 3 dogs and get them back in the house. Later on, animal control showed up for the dogs, and the police locked up after them.

Apparently, the people who had lived there were renters and had decided to do a midnight move. Rather than take the dogs, they simply left them there (can you say “bastards!!”).

My wife and I are going to head over to the shelter and see if we can’t addopt one of them (after the 3 day waiting period).