“Through gathering air God sent storm clouds and rain,
Thunder that shakes the heart.”
Book 1, Metamorphoses, Ovid, translated by Horace Gregory. Drip… Drip, drip… Drip, drip, drip, drop, dripdropdripordropdrodpdoidropdoroid… Thus began what was to shape up as a four-day thunderstorm across most of the middle U.S. — severest near…