Tonight was the monthly free give-away at the Lego store. I decided that the girls had been pretty good & it was a good excuse as any to get over to Walgreens to pick up the reprints I had ordered. As we drove along Alta Arden, the sky above us took on that interesting brownish tint. You know the one I mean. The one that tells you, “Heh, heh. You’ve got about 20 seconds before the sky is going to open up.”
And that it did.
It didn’t just open up, it was as if I had driven under a waterfall. I calmly (mostly) decelerated as I pulled toward the right. Suddenly, everything was white. At this precise moment is when I hit the fully engulfed section of the thoroughfare – a condition I would have seen and properly avoided had the rain gods not been smiting the Arden Area at the time.
Life Lesson: Water six inches deep will spray well over the height of a Town & Country – including covering the windshield – when hit at even a mere 20 mph.
“Wow Mommy! That sure is a lot of water!”
“Yes, it certainly is.”
“How will it go away?”
“It’ll soak into the ground or go down the storm drain or dry up when the sun comes out.”
“They’d better clean it up before it gets too dark,” Alessa stated with a somber look.
“Why is that?”
“Because if all that water’s out there tonight, animals will come out to lick it up & they might get hit by a car.”
:::blink blink::: What do you say to such logic?
