Sunday's Freak Thunderstorm over Sacramento

It's time to commemorate Sunday's narrow but intense thunderstorm over downtown and eastern metropolitan Sacramento. The Sacramento Bee neatly summarizes the basic absurdity of the event: even though similar events happen elsewhere in the nation and world, the last event here was apparently in 1935 (I can't believe that: it's just that the city utility people had to have been too freaked out to thoroughly check the rainfall records, or maybe it applies just to downtown Sacramento).

Californians just aren't prepared for some kinds of meteorological events (I know I wasn't - I was cowering under the eaves of the dance studio, screaming for it to stop). We much prefer chewing our cud while watching panicked television coverage from Pensacola.