Friday, July 26, 2013

Wild and Wet in Tucson, AZ

We had a pretty good thunderstorm this afternoon.  We are about two houses off of Mann Street on Mary Drive and Mann Street always becomes a raging river as it passes by our street.  We get a fair flow of water on Mary Drive that runs off into Mann Street.  It all goes down one more street to the north of Mary Drive where there is a dip in the road and the water makes a sharp left turn and ambles on to who knows where.  Now, that all made sense, right? 

I messed around all day, not getting much done and waited until the thunderstorm started... to start driving to the Costco Warehouse.  It was about a one half hour drive in fantastically heavy traffic and with the windows closed and the windshield wipers going full blast the windows started fogging up real bad.  I turned the heater/defroster on and breathed a lot of hot air for a period of time.  I tried cracking my driver side window open a few inches to offset the temperature on the front window to clear the fog but then a car would zip by on that side and splash a couple of gallons of water through the opening and all over me!  By the time that I arrived at Costco, just a little bit wet, the rain had slowed some.  Getting out of the vehicle and looking around with my wide brimmed sombrero on my head, I wished that I had worn high topped work shoes instead of a dress shoe type.  I swear, I waded through running water 6 inches deep to get into the store.  I was using one of those fold up window shades from my vehicle to use as an umbrella.  As strange as I looked, when I showed my Costco Card----they let me in.  Thank goodness, it was fairly dry on the return trip to home about an hour later.  Have a good day....The Can Man

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