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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[hudebnik.livejournal.com]

We had an impressive storm this evening too. Fairly heavy rain, with parts of the Grand Central Parkway six inches deep or so... but the lightning! It seemed like every ten seconds or so there would be a "cut here" line across the sky.

[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.