What a crappy morning. First, the thunder and lightning woke me up at around 3:30 am and it kept coming down so hard that it was keeping me awake. It was after 4:30 that I fell back asleep, but I had to get up at 6:00 to get ready for work. Grandma was watching the news, while I grumpily ate my breakfast. Because of the rain, she had the volume up so loud, I couldn't hear myself chew my cereal. The news said that my school would be closed due to the heavy rains and flash flood warnings. I kept waiting for an official call from the school, but that never came. I was forced to call them despite knowing that they would probably be irritated that so many people were calling with the same question. The person who answered, was clearly annoyed with my question that she gave a one word response to my question and hung up before I could.
I was just settling down to enjoy my unexpected day off from work when my grandmother told me that our garage was flooding. I had to get go out in the pouring rain and survey the impending damage. Our entire front yard was completely covered in thick brown water flowing quickly into our swelling drainage ditches. Everywhere I turned, the murky dinge kept rising. Grandma's plants were swallowed up as the water inched higher and higher in our garage. I was forced to move boxes of junk off the ground, move my shoes and anything else to avoid any damages. I missed work to do more work. The heavens finally closed their taps and the rain eased long enough for me to clean up and put everything back. As if to mock me, the sun even reared itself for a few hours giving me no excuse to stay indoors and sulk all day.
Our front yard on an ordinary day
This morning's rising waters
I was just settling down to enjoy my unexpected day off from work when my grandmother told me that our garage was flooding. I had to get go out in the pouring rain and survey the impending damage. Our entire front yard was completely covered in thick brown water flowing quickly into our swelling drainage ditches. Everywhere I turned, the murky dinge kept rising. Grandma's plants were swallowed up as the water inched higher and higher in our garage. I was forced to move boxes of junk off the ground, move my shoes and anything else to avoid any damages. I missed work to do more work. The heavens finally closed their taps and the rain eased long enough for me to clean up and put everything back. As if to mock me, the sun even reared itself for a few hours giving me no excuse to stay indoors and sulk all day.
Our front yard on an ordinary day
This morning's rising waters
man that totally sucks! I was glad for a day off but i was sad for all the people that got flooded!
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