So here I sit....

[Tubby & Peanut's Mom]

I was just getting ready to leave when we had a major lightning strike or something (we're having thunderstorms pass through). All the lights flashed off, the radio blinks off, the copier freaks out and shuts off - and then all of a sudden everything comes back on again! My computer is fine because I have a battery back-up thingy, but my bosses computer kinda freaked out and tried to restart. So I was futzing with that, trying to get it to restart - just got it up and going....and the sky just dumped! I don't think I've ever seen it rain so hard! So I figure I'll sit here for awhile and check out PT - I mean really, what better is there to do when you're stuck at work waiting for the rain to abate so you can go home? Well, not quite so fast! My dsl won't work - might have blown the modem out. So I get on dial up and everything is fine, but really, really s...l...o...w.

So I took some pics of the rain. Of course you can't get the full effect, but I just don't think I've ever seen it rain this hard! At one point I could barely see across the street!

This first one I took through the window.

You can see the vertical rain and the drops it's making on the street. This would definitely be a time when your car would hydro-plane because the street is like a river!

And this one I opened the door, so if you can feel a spray of water as you look at the pic, you'll get a better feel for it.

It had already started to lighten up a bit when I took these because it was black as night earlier.

I'm going to have a tough time getting home because when it rains this hard in Chicago, streets and low underpasses flood, and that's what I have to go through. I'm sure the highways are a mess too - ugh!

Well, in the 5 minutes it took me to download the pics and get them posted here, it looks like the rain has dramatically let up, so I'm going to go brave the elements and try and get home. Probably be there in 1 1/2....if I'm lucky that is.

PS - and I even won at the spider solitaire game I was playing!!!

PPS or PSS - Update 6:10 DSL is working again! Yipee!! It's still kinda geeky though. Hopefully it'll work better tomorrow. See you then!