He's Back

It was 4:30 am and I was dreaming (oddly) of Representative Jason Chaffetz's (?) rise from humble marathon runner (???) to political superstar. Out of nowhere, I was ripped from my peaceful slumber when the prayer call from our next-door mosque shattered the morning stillness. And then all of a sudden felt like I was on fire: a mosquito bite was searing through the arch of my foot that had obviously been too close to the net. If you've ever had a bite on the bottom of your foot, you might understand that they are impossible to itch.

It throbbed.

And I was awake, dang it--wide awake.

As I lay there, trying to get back to that sleep that I was not ready to give up for at least another hour, it started to drizzle outside. And within a matter of seconds, we had a full-on monsoon out our window. "I wonder if we're going to be able to make it to work on time," I thought. And then I was promptly able to fall back asleep.

Well, we didn't. Fast forward two hours and you will see why:

[OK, I've tried and tried to upload a video of our drive into work, but the Internet refuses to cooperate. So...this is a snapshot of that movie.]

They say, it's El Nino.

I say, wasn't El Nino the rage in the 90's?

Apparently I haven't been keeping up on my meteorology.

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Post Edit: I wrote this post 3 days ago, and since that time, I have seen rain like I've never seen in my life. Just yesterday it washed out an entire bridge and displaced about 2,000 people. Crazy stuff, I tell you!