McArtor.net

There were ominous skies leading up to our Wednesday, 8:45pm volleyball game and the local TV stations were waging Radar-wars to see who had the champion Super-Mega-Ultra-Doppler system. Rain and wind was all around us, but it hadn’t hit Des Moines, so The Sands recreation complex was open for volleyball. The team we played was pretty good, and we split the first 2 games and were leading 11-4 (or something like that) when the wind picked up—and boy did it. I’m not a meterologist, but it must have been blowing 30+ MPH, maybe more, all I know is that every time they served, the ball would literally blow from one side of the court to the other. Once we finally got a serve back, we were behind by a couple and weren’t able to recover. We all sprayed the sand off our feet and got to our cars in time to beat the storm—come to think of it, I’m not sure it really rained much at all.

2 Responses to “Blown Away”