Thursday, July 1, 2010

Typhoon, Monsoon!!

Run! Duck and cover! More rain than you can shake a stick at!

Technically, I didn't realize until I got home, but there was a Tornado warning going on at the time… remember that… a couple days ago?

I met this angry sewer cover, spitting up a jet of water like some rogue geyser. Yeah, it was raining hard. See the street in the distance? Five minutes before this picture was taken, that wasn't even visible from where I was standing. We're talking blinding rain. So much rain it actually soaked through my umbrella and started dripping down on me. This wasn't any whimsy umbrella either. My beast of an umbrella, with a double layered top to ensure against bowing in the wind, a carbon fiber rod, and spring loaded action met it's match. Oh, and so did the sewers. By the time I got back to my place, this is what our street looked like. And, just in case you were wondering, the brown fluid rushing around the cars did carry the scent of sewage.

All in all, though, the rain was quite warm, quite refreshing, and quite belligerent in it's attempt at blowing in every direction; definitely had fun today.