music: "Ordinary World," Duran Duran
Here I am hanging out in the eighties today. Oh well, who doesn't love Duran Duran? I sure do.
I had my first taste of a Miami rainstorm yesterday. I had volunteered for six hours at the hospital, missing out on all the yuckiness. I was kind of surprised when I left to see how wet everything was. Anyway, Chris had to take his car down to the shop to get new tires, and I offered to go with him and keep him company while he waited. When we got there, the sky was grey, but fairly harmless looking, so we took off on a walk around the block.
I don't know if you've ever been to one of those industrial neighborhoods, where there are no houses -- only building stores, and car shops, and warehouses, and empty fields with crushed beer bottles and abandoned/stripped cars and semi trailers? Well, that's the kind of place this was. We walked for about an hour but were only about two-thirds of the way around the circle that would take us back to the shop. Suddenly I heard this weird shhshshshshsh sound, like rice falling on a cookie sheet. The next thing I know, Chris is yelling "-come-on--comeon-comeoncomeon" and we're running as fast as we can for cover. No use, I was soaked before I realized what was going on.
Chris thought it was hilarious. Apparently I was naive to the natural phenomenons of Miami -- when it rains, it doesn't start as a light sprinkle and gradually worsen. Oh, no. It sweeps in great tidal waves of water. You can hear it before you can feel it (and since Chris knew what the sound was, he made it to cover faster than I did), and you're soaked before you can blink. By soaked, I mean sopping, soaking, dripping wet. Fall-in-a-swimming-pool kind of wet.
We took cover for awhile, but that rain didn't let up, so we had to make a run for it, approximately a block and a half. By the end of it, Chris was muddy and I was freezing, but it was pretty fun. I haven't seen rain in so many months, since Idaho doesn't even see the occasional sprinkle.
On a side note, though, my mom called two days ago to tell me they saw the first snow of the year. Lucky! (I'm glad to be in the warmth though..)