And then the rains came!

It started raining. It was light at first. A drop here, another there.

Cats and dogs and everything in between!

Within a few minutes, it started coming down faster. A steady beat like a drummer tapping on a set of drums. It grew faster and faster. The noise growing with intensity and drive. The water washed down the window, replaced instantly by another bucket and another and another.

Around and around we go, where it stops, nobody knows!

And then the heavens opened up and I was reminded why you don’t mess around with bad weather. You give it a wide berth. The damn had been broken and I got a strange feeling that anything and all could happen.

My windshield wipers raced back and forth and barely seemed to register a difference. I half expected a tornado cluster to rise up out of nowhere and whip my car and everything around me up into a funnel cloud. “Hey ma, look over there, I see a flying cow!”

For a second, I thought I have to live out my very own version of the movie Twister. How did Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton make this look so easy?

Over before it began

And then just like that, it was over. Gone. The rain had stopped. The tension seemed eased. The storm raced back to wherever it came from. Within minutes, the threat was far from memory again. The birds started chirping again. Other drivers started coming out of hibernation.

Here’s to waiting it out.

And oh yea, here’s to sunny skies all this week.

Creedence Clearwater Revival – Have You Ever Seen The Rain