Summer Rainstorm

The July 4^th weekend of summer 2010 was a very eventful weekend. It was supposed to be a nice little weekend trip to Lubbock to see the basketball girls play. We never expected what would be in store for us. It had been rainy the whole time The Roommate’s mom, Gnome, and I were going back and forth to games. Then Saturday, July 3^rd, the girls lost and were out of the tournament so most everyone went on home. We decided to stay another night so we would do some shopping and just mess around. We ended up going back to the hotel for a little while and then we went shopping at Ross’s. Then after that we decided that we wanted to go eat at Olive Garden. The Roommate, Gnome, and I were enjoying eating our food and talking to the waiter’s because they were really nice and friendly. When we finally left at 10 o’ clock from there to go back to our hotel, we discovered that the road we needed to go back home was flooded. We proceeded to take another way back when it started raining heavily. The streets were flooding heavily and the tahoe was in water up to the bottom of the doors. We ended up waiting in three different parking lots because we were trying to get back to our hotel. We ended up in a Health Point parking lot on one instance and we were just sitting there with the windows rolled down because by then it had stopped raining, when all of the sudden the darn sprinklers turned on. I heard this hissing sound and I looked out and started screaming “Sprinklers!” and was trying to roll up the window fast as I could. It was actually a pretty funny thing that happened. On one of the routes we took trying to get back to the hotel we ended up almost driving into a park that had become a lake that was heavily overflowed. We would have been sunk in lots of water. We eventually made it to the Wal-Mart right beside our hotel but we could not get to the hotel because there was literally a river of rain water separating us. We spent at least two hours in Wal-Mart just sitting at the McDonalds inside of it looking at magazines, then at six that morning the water had gone down enough that we got back to our hotel. This was the most frightening rainstorm I have ever experienced.

Yes... this really happened... -_-