Scary Morning

I woke up this morning at about 8 to a huge thunder and lightning storm. So this is unusual for the morning, most anywhere, right? I had had big plans for the morning, since I have to go in to do first appearances this afternoon. I wanted to go grocery shopping and various other errands. So the storm went on until about 10:30 and finally stopped. I got dressed and hit the road. Things were wet and saturated, but I headed west to the next parish over for some big box shopping. Once I got over to this shopping area, the water started to get deeper and deeper. There were tons of cars and people pulled into the center divider. I didn't have my cell phone or know exactly where I was. Everything was going very slowly and eventually the water was about halfway up the door of the truck. It seemed to be getting deeper as I went, the lanes going the other way were obviously deeper than where I was... but I least I knew it got better going that way. So I turned around and spent 5-10 minutes terrified the truck would eventually just quit. I could hear water coming in somewhere.... fuck fuck fuck fuck. I could see the road going up over an overpass, so I just kept going, whimpering "c'mon, c'mon, c'mon...."

The story ends with me going to a grocery store closer to home, noticing that the bed of the truck had, in fact, gotten wet... and while I know flooding has been serious up north, too... learning an important lesson about not fucking with water here in New Orleans. You can read about it here.