Zonked

[davidgillon]

I have been thoroughly zonked all day. I didn't sleep well, or possibly at all, on Sunday night, I think I might have dozed for a couple of hours, so I was hoping for a good sleep on Monday night. And things started out looking so good: went to bed about 2AM (early for me), fell asleep almost immediately.

And then the thunderstorm arrived, and I had the window open. A local newspaper report describes the thunder as sounding like a bomb going off.

I don't know what time it arrived over Chatham, I didn't wake up past the "Oh god, that's noisy, and it's light out there, leave me alone!" stage until about 10AM, but it seemed to go on for ages. I'm guessing at least couple of hours, but possibly from 4AM onwards. (A friend who volunteers at an animal rescue cetre says the rain was so heavy some of their cages and aviaries flooded and they had to rescue animals that were already at the rescue centre).

I finally woke up properly at 11AM, but that only lasted about an hour, I spent the whole afternoon dozing off into a microsleep about once every 10 minutes.

Here's hoping for a slightly quieter and less flashy night.