Monday, December 15, 2008

It's Raining, It's Pouring...

This morning, when I woke up to go to morning prayer, it was raining. At first, I didn't want to go to get up and go but then I remembered that I had made up my mind to go yesterday and I wasn't going to change it. I drove carefully since it was the first rain in a while. The roads are extra dangerous during the first rain because there is still oil on the road. Oil and water make a bad combination. At least that is what everyone tells me. It started raining harder after I got back from prayer. I noticed that there was a huge puddle on the lawn outside of my room. Since my room was freezing cold I decided to go with my roommate to school. We got our stuff together and grabbed our umbrellas. Then we walked to the corner to cross the street. It was totally flooded around the corner. I had to step in and get wet. But then, when we got to the other side we realized that the water was deep. We waded through the almost knee deep water. There was no way around it. Once we had crossed I noticed that the water flooded half the street. I found it amazing that a city street would not have better drainage.

I won't be going back across the street until after my final this afternoon.

2 comments:

Idhrendur said...

It's southern california. The engineers never thought about rain.

Just wait until the walkway between the dorms and the cafeteria completely floods.

I think of have pictures of that somewhere...

Miriam said...

The walkway was rushing like a fast flowing stream but fortunately I didn't have to get to the cafeteria since it was closed.