Rainy weekend

It was all over the news we were going to have bad weather this weekend. Friday night I got home just in time for the first storm to hit. I wasn't complaining since we have really not had a lot of rain this year. Saturday morning I went to my friend Lisa's house. I was there until around 2 pm. At that time I decided to leave due to the weather. I wanted to get home before it flooded. I knew my neighborhood is known for flooding.

About half way home the rain started to come down. I found myself with my wipers on as fast as they would go and driving less than 20 miles an hour and still could not see the road. I was about 2 miles from home and turned onto Beamer then thats when I noticed the street was already flooding. I knew that it was only going to get worse the further I went. I decided to turn around and head to a near by gas station down the road. It was very scary because I've seen the road the gas station was on flood too. I made it to the gas station around 3 pm. The normal drive time from my friends house to the gas station should take 15 minutes and it took me an hour.

I pull into the gas station and waited. Thank God they had clean restrooms. I had to use them a couple times. Around 6 pm Russell was able to make it to the gas station but still had to go through high water on Beamer, but he has a truck so it was ok. Our plan was to have him pick me up and then later we would go back to get my car. We ended up finding a way home that was not flooded and then went back and got my car.

This is the really funny part. After being home about ten minutes I got up off the couch and headed to the restroom and Russell said "Monique you had a blow out". I turned and looked at him puzzled. Then realized my jeans had a nice rip and you could see my underwear. I had used the restroom at the gas station a couple times, so who knows when the rip happened but I'm sure it was there when I went into the store. Russell tried to make me feel better and said "maybe it happened when you got into the truck". He is so sweet.

I'm very thankful my car did not get damaged in the rain, and I'm very thankful the hole in my pants wasn't bigger. :)