man plans and God laughs

[cellio]

This morning I was talking with a coworker about storms and commented that I sometimes like to watch a good thunderstorm -- lightning, sheets of rain, etc -- so long as it's from indoors or the protection of my front porch.

I see I should have been more clear. I do not think a car counts as "indoors".

It was an exciting drive home! It's not often that I see deep-enough-to-be-troubling pools of water on roads on hills.

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[cellio]

We had less lightning but, it sounds like, more torrents. There were a couple times when I was driving pretty much purely by the clues from the tail-lights in front of me -- but I didn't dare stop or I'd risk being rear-ended. Fortunately, I commute via local roads, not highways.

There is a sad ending to this storm: a (somewhat major) road a few miles from my house had flash floods with water deep enough that people were swimming away from their cars, and three people didn't make it out. :-( What's weird is that this isn't really a local low point; something major must have gone wrong. Presumably there's a major storm drain under that street (it's near the river), because the news reported that all the manhole covers along that stretch had blown.