Normal:
The weather here is Hot.
Then the next day it is hot. Then
hot again, and then hot. At night it is
a bit cooler, or we wouldn't sleep for these 18 months. Well, yesterday it was 90 degrees. Of course it was humid and one of those days
that was filled with perspiration. Since
it was Saturday, we were out doing Saturday things, purchasing food, getting
caught up and preparing for the coming week.
As we left the institute, (doing month end things) it looked like
rain.
Thursday night it rained while we
were out and there was water in the middle of our kitchen, and a few other
places throughout the apartment. We
always leave the windows open to air out the place. Since it never rains here, we thought we were
safe, even coming home from the institute threatening rain. Well, we were going to the local Blockbuster
to see if there was a movie we could watch, for you see we are still between
semesters.
As we neared the movie store it started to rain. I mean really rain. I mean torrential rain. I mean downpour. It was nice since we haven't seen much rain
here. Well, remember, it was 90 degrees
hot and really started to get serious, as if it wasn't serious before. It started to hail. Big hail.
I thought we were going to have damage to the car. We entered the underground parking at the
movie place and there was about six inches of water in the parking
basement. We swam through the flood,
parked the car and got out. Found a
movie, and swam back to the car.
Everyone was talking, pointing fingers, watching the hail, the rain, and the heavy wind.
On the way home, there were leaves broken off of the trees,
streets littered with things. As we
neared our apartment, there was rivers where there used to be roads. We approached our apartment and the power was
out, thus we could not get into the parking lot where we parked our car. We would have to wade through six inches of
water to arrive at the front door of our apartment complex.
Finally, it slowed down raining and blowing and tried to
show us blue sky. An important person
came out and manually used the key and opened the gate, we entered. Water, mud, debris everywhere. We entered to find the couch by the open
window soaked, our bed soaked, water everywhere (we live on the third floor)
and mud also within our abode. As it
started to grow dark, we still didn't have power and had to eat a bite by
candle light. We slept in a different bed that
was hard as a cement floor, or tried to sleep.
Every hour or so, an alarm, loud, sounded and continued to ring through
the darkness for hour upon hour. Chester
the dog, barked all night long.
We called one sister we work with and asked her about the
storm. She laughed and said that is
"NORMAL" for May, get used to it.
We went walking this morning and herein are shown many pictures of
normal rain showers coming through this month of May.
Today, Sunday, it rained again and rain came into our apartment, water on the floor of our living area. NORMAL.
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