As I've said about a Zillion times before if you know me in real life, and I've probably written it many hundreds if not a thousand times before here on this blog...
...being a self proclaimed student of math and statistics...
there's a good reason the old grey haired men which went to their graves before us decided to put numbers together and produce things like "means" and "the bell curve" and most importantly...
A V E R A G E S.
Averages aren't really just designed to report the classroom grades of so-called "students" sitting in Government buildings against their will.
Averages tell us how things have been and probably will be--without some new outside influence--in the future.
For instance, if the average temperature in September in a given location in the US is 84 degrees F, and recently you've been in that city on those dates and the temperature was 64 degrees F...
...there's a pretty darn good chance that later this month or at least at the same time next year or years that the sun is going to show up and make things 94 degrees F just to get things back to AVERAGE in the record books.
We're going through that same sort of thing this Labor Day weekend with the local rainfall average here in Knoxtown.
It started raining before lunch time yesterday and it hasn't stopped since then.
Not really a hard threatening Thunderstorm type of rain...
...I'm talking a SOAKING kind of rain that comes down real steady and after 24 or 36 hours adds up to a pile of water in your back yard.
The Turbo Pup's swimming pool is almost overflowing right now because of the rain.
Here's the "Storm Total Map" from the NOAA website for our area
We really needed the rain because the month of August set some records for dryness here, but then again Mother Nature has a sense of humor and just to get the AVERAGES straightened out she sent us all of the water in one shipment I guess.
So things are back to normal here in Eastern Tennessee come Tuesday Morning after the Holiday weekend, and I hope everyone had half as much fun as I did in the past three days.
Regards Y'all...
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