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It's a mixture of sun and clouds today. Pretty standard for late spring in New England, right? And since they have been predicting rain for days and we've yet to see any during normal waking hours (say 6am-midnight) no one is really paying all that much attention. Sure, you find evidence of rain during the night, but it's not too bad. And if it does rain during waking hours it's piddly and brief and amounts to nothing much. And so I confidently left the house this morning in the sunshine, even if they were predicting scattered showers, with no umbrella and no coat, just a zipup sweatshirt in case it turns colder (under 60 degrees) this evening before I get home.
Well, it gets to be time for late lunch - I usually take a break around 2ish (sometimes later) to get Lunch, and since the building has no lunch like places, I have to get into my car and drive. Really no big deal. So as I climb into my car, I notice the sun is gone, and it is getting darker. Still not an issue - cloudcover has come and gone all day. I drive the two miles up the road, because I decide I am sick of the bagel place and the other sandwich places, and I want to go to this one deli. As I pull into the parking lot it starts to monsoon. I am talking the parking lot is flooded before I can park the car. So I sigh, and take my wallet from my purse so *it* doesn't have to get soaked like *I* am about to. I wade quickly through the river that was a parking lot three minutes before and get my sandwich at the deli.
I figure, I am already wet, I might as well take the sandwich back to the office as planned, since the deli has the air conditioning on high and I am starting to shiver. I wade back to the car, and drive through the flooded streets back to the office. Several storm drains can't keep up with the deluge of water and are vomiting the rain back into the streets. Lovely, I think. Just keep going.
I get back to the office building about 30 minutes from when I started out on this trek and as soon as the door closes behind me, the rain tapers off to almost nothing. Here it is a few minutes after I've returned from my errand, the sun is shining and the birds are cheeping and the weather gods are laughing at me.
Well, it gets to be time for late lunch - I usually take a break around 2ish (sometimes later) to get Lunch, and since the building has no lunch like places, I have to get into my car and drive. Really no big deal. So as I climb into my car, I notice the sun is gone, and it is getting darker. Still not an issue - cloudcover has come and gone all day. I drive the two miles up the road, because I decide I am sick of the bagel place and the other sandwich places, and I want to go to this one deli. As I pull into the parking lot it starts to monsoon. I am talking the parking lot is flooded before I can park the car. So I sigh, and take my wallet from my purse so *it* doesn't have to get soaked like *I* am about to. I wade quickly through the river that was a parking lot three minutes before and get my sandwich at the deli.
I figure, I am already wet, I might as well take the sandwich back to the office as planned, since the deli has the air conditioning on high and I am starting to shiver. I wade back to the car, and drive through the flooded streets back to the office. Several storm drains can't keep up with the deluge of water and are vomiting the rain back into the streets. Lovely, I think. Just keep going.
I get back to the office building about 30 minutes from when I started out on this trek and as soon as the door closes behind me, the rain tapers off to almost nothing. Here it is a few minutes after I've returned from my errand, the sun is shining and the birds are cheeping and the weather gods are laughing at me.