Saturday, October 06, 2007

Bad weather sucks.

So I'm driving home from the Lakeland/New London football game in New London, and all I see is clear skies for two hours of the usual 2 hour, 30 minute drive.
The last half hour took nearly 45 minutes and that preceded another 20 minutes of sitting in my car in the parking lot of my work.
Here's the story:
So I pass the Highway 8 intersection on 51, and I start seeing some lightning off in the distance. Not so scary from 30 miles away. Then the rain slowly started to fall. Slowly.
I got about 10 minutes from Hazelhurst, or about 15-20 minutes from work/home, and the rain HIT. It wasn't coming down in buckets, it was coming down in barrels. My car hydroplaned nearly a dozen times in a five minute stretch, including two flash flood fast moving rivers traveling across the highway.
My '98 Ford Taurus, which had 140k on it and is ready to be laid to rest in a junk yard somewhere, somehow made it through. The lightning, now not 30 miles, but rather 3 miles (even 300 yards in some instances) was close, deadly, and had booming thunder that I could hear and feel OVER TOP of my Jay Z album I was bumpin' to on the drive back.
When I finally got to work, I decided to play it safe and not leave the car for a little while -- at least until the rain and lightning slowed down. That ended up taking 15 minutes. I waited through numerous heavy downpours of rain, making Hurricane Rita look bad, and lightning so violent, Ike Turner was curled into a corner somewhere.
When I finally did leave the car, lightning struck just down the street, and the thunder was so horrifying that I nearly dropped my $700 camera just trying to get the keys into the lock.
However, I made it in safe, so all is well. For now, anyway. I still have to drive home....

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