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Soggy good deed of the day
Nov. 20th, 2012 07:57 pmActually, it was yesterday, but I didn't have the energy left over to post.
Biking home in the pouring down rain, I stopped twice at flooded intersections to clear leaf-blocked drains. It amazes me that car after car after bike after pedestrian just splashed on through. I can see how the drivers would want to stay dry, I guess. In that kind of rain, dryness was a lost cause for me.
Both times I wondered what I would use to clear it, since reaching into cold, murky water wasn't appealing. At the first one there was a nearby sturdy stick (which I left for next time) and at the second I borrowed a contractor's shovel from where he was working on a house. Doing construction in a downpour!
This evening it was blessedly dry during my whole shopping trip for groceries. I kept looking around, amazed. No rain from above, no floods below, nothing. I wore my rain gear anyway, since earlier today it was sunny one minute, wall-of-rain-with-hail the next. Glad I wasn't out then!
Biking home in the pouring down rain, I stopped twice at flooded intersections to clear leaf-blocked drains. It amazes me that car after car after bike after pedestrian just splashed on through. I can see how the drivers would want to stay dry, I guess. In that kind of rain, dryness was a lost cause for me.
Both times I wondered what I would use to clear it, since reaching into cold, murky water wasn't appealing. At the first one there was a nearby sturdy stick (which I left for next time) and at the second I borrowed a contractor's shovel from where he was working on a house. Doing construction in a downpour!
This evening it was blessedly dry during my whole shopping trip for groceries. I kept looking around, amazed. No rain from above, no floods below, nothing. I wore my rain gear anyway, since earlier today it was sunny one minute, wall-of-rain-with-hail the next. Glad I wasn't out then!
