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That’s what I’ve been calling Texas thunderstorms since the days when Mr. Boy would call for Mom at the first crash overhead preceded by a neon flash, usually late at night. Understandable. Who wouldn’t be scared at such a young age? This was at three or four. At six going on seven, however, while he doesn’t actually like them, he’s no longer particularly afraid of them. But I still call them thunderboomers.

And KVET-KASE meteorologist Troy Kimmel says we’re in for a possible few severe ones (heavy rain, damaging hail, strong straight-line winds) in the next few hours as a strong cold front makes its way southeast and slams into our high humidity (54 percent) and hot (93 degrees with a heat index of 100) afternoon, whose only indication of looming trouble has been the ovenlike breeze that’s been kicking up for the last hour or so. There’s already been a few showers around town ahead of the front, but nothing at the rancho. Details to follow.

UPDATE  Shut down the computer at 5 or so as the first storms and cloud-to-ground lightning moved in. No hail or strong winds to speak of at the rancho, but the rain was heavy enough at times to leave us half an inch. The cold front and the rain combined to drop the temperature twenty degrees. The lights went out for a few minutes but came back on. Mr. B. watched a Yu Gi Oh video through the whole thing. Ho hum.