Pet Peeve of the Day: Being trapped inside a Boston Market while a torrential downpour floods the streets. ‘Round about 7pm this evening, heavy rains, lightning, and high winds pelted the metro Denver area, and it seemed like we were right in the thick of it. It started right after N and I walked into the restaurant at Speer & Grant. The streets were rivers and the intersections were lakes. We watched as cars tried to escape the parking lot, only to back away and try another route. Finally, it looked like it was letting up a bit so we made our escape. A few spots were dicey, but with a running start, the Prius made it through them okay. At least we didn’t get trapped in my car like other people did. Cherry Creek was very high and running very fast, and people had to be rescued from the water. So maybe I was lucky after all. After dropping my girlfriend off at her place, I decided to avoid 6th Ave for the drive home. The Lowell Street underpass is notorious for flooding in heavy rains. I took Colfax home, which was slow going, mostly because it was a bit jammed and people were just going slow. By then the rain had stopped, though there were still big puddles here and there. The west side of town didn’t seem to get it as bad as the east side. I got home just in time to turn my automatic sprinklers off.
Why is it always feast or famine around here? Either it’s too hot and dry and the mountains catch on fire, or we get these huge downpours. My sister was stuck in a similar downpour in Greeley a couple of nights ago, which also flooded the streets and trapped people. Why can’t we have just a gentle rain every day for a little while? Why, Al Gore, why??
I got nothing else to write about today.
Latre.
Jogged Today: Yes (@ 63°F)
Songs That Came Up On The iPod While Jogging:
- “We Don’t Bite” (Classix Nouveaux)
- “Man On Fire” (Bill Nelson)
- “Wishing Well” (Mission UK)
- “Space Jungle” (The Bongos)
- “Shades of Blue” (Steve Wynn)
- “Alone, Together” (The Strokes)
- “The Shyest Time” (Apartments)
Poignant Search Term Of The Day That Led To This Blog: “i think i have fiberglass in my hands and feet”.
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1 InfK // Aug 8, 2008 at 10:24 pm
> Why can’t we have just a gentle rain every day for a little while?
You generally do. At least for most of my 20 years in Denver, May-June marked a period of almost daily, 15-minute rainshowers around 5:pm. And most of the rest of the year, except of course for the March snowstorms, was dry.
My favorite thing about the Denver climate (about which I could, and do, go on at length) was how it gets bad just often enough to remind you how great it normally is.