Sunday, June 29, 2014

When it Rains,it Pours

Here in Austin when it rains, it really rains and you would think it was acid falling from the sky (well maybe now days there is a bit) but literal acid that would burn your skin.

The other day as it was time to leave work, many of my coworkers decided to stay and work-overtime because they didn't want to go out in the rain.  Me, I was ready to come home and no amount of rain was going to stop me.  People here love and hate the rain.  The hate getting wet and messing up their hair and close but they love the fact that rain means the swimming holes will fill up for the weekend.

I rode the elevator down with a few brave souls.   But once in the lobby everyone was not willing to go outside everyone keep saying "I don't want to get wet".  Hey, whats a little rain right?, I was willing to risk it...

But before I swung the door open to step out into this freak afternoon storm, I took my shoes of something told me to, don't ask what I just figured I should.  An thank God I did.

Once outside I started jogging across the sidewalk and once I came to the curb and just before I stepped onto the  parking-lot what did I see but a river of water running by me.  I gingerly stepped down and the water and it came up over my ankles and I found that I had to wade through the water to my car.

The rain was hot, the air was muggy and nothing of this down pour screamed a break in the heat.  I am finding myself having many first here in Texas.  This was my first experience wading through a parking lot, in a down pour to get to my car.  To many more firsts

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