i had to pop out this evening after picking p. up from school to pick up a package down in the south of the city. it was raining when we left, but as soon as we pulled out of our street the rain really started to come down.
within 15 minutes of being on the road, entire intersections were flooded out. streets, sidewalks and parking lots turned into turbulent rivers. cars and trucks were stalling in the deeper areas, some cars were abandoned in the street with water up to the windows. fountains of water were erupting from manholes, spouting nearly a meter in the air out of one. lightening was striking with regularity all around.
it was, in a word, mayhem. we made it to the store and back home thanks to picking the right roadways (e.g. ones that were higher elevation), but it took quite a while and was quite the adventure.
hopefully m. will send me some of the pics from her phone so i can post them here later.
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3 comments:
We get that all the time in Ecuador -- water up to half the passenger doors; combine that with buses driving recklessly through the flood, and sometimes water waves just pass over the roof of your car. Diesel-powered vehicles seem like the right rescue for these weather conditions; they don't choke with water (if they have snorkels) since they don't have distributors/spark plugs.
Generally people don't like it, but when our weather's like that, I just *love* to go out driving. The challenge of keeping the engine revved up and finely adjusting the clutch while driving at slow speeds with zero traction... love it!
If you had a plasma weather data engine and applet you would have known when the flashing weather warning popped up ;)
P.S. can we please have Kalarm (ugly and difficult to use (yet functional)) replaced by an alarm built in to your clock applet please. I'll get you a beer at LRL - either that or I'll do it myself (but without the oxygen guys help it wont be a looker)
Did you get the feeling that you'd inadvertantly walked out onto a movie set? lolol....
We had a torrential rain here yesterday too but NOTHING like what you had!
Hugs and warm dry thoughts!
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