Effing Wet, Redux

16/05/2007

When leaving my last class of the day yesterday, I was greeted with a very nice outside scene of absolutely pouring rain. Not really wanting to wait around for it to calm down since I wanted to get home, and well equipped with sandals on my feet I just walked through it. It was rather amusing because on some parts of the path my sandals were definitely entirely submerged in water, and then sometimes a stream would sort of flow over them when I had to cross the road; I was somewhat eyeing the metal lamp-posts that I was passing by because of the lightning and thunder, in summary, cool! I think the end result would have been the same if I had jumped into a pool and got out after a couple of minutes.

I didn’t end up risking taking my phone out outside, it already got a bit wet as is despite being in my bag. But here are some contrast pictures from that sunshine, and I snagged 2 videos, which are really bad quality :( but do sort of get the point across as you can see the wind and the rain squalls on the road.

Rainy Window 3Rainy Window 2Rainy Window 1

Now, sorry for the quality, but if you’re interested, here are the two videos:
Video 1 and Video 2.

In the end, this storm trapped Adam inside his house with power lines and we didn’t go to the movies, but the rain itself with the storm was really cool :)

There are 4 comments in this article:

  1. 16/05/2007Sharon say:

    I am sooo jealous!!! We just had a bit of thunder this morning and rain but nothing super awesome…which might be good since I have to walk to school soon. It`s 9:20am on the 17th here. We@re 13 hours ahead. XD

  2. 17/05/2007Adam Mc say:

    First lighting strike hit the Street light pole, second lightning strike hit the Transformer. Also, the wind took down a pole. I saw both of the strikes, large explosions each time!

  3. 17/05/2007Moogog say:

    Isn’t it funny how some small things can still be so awesome even though you’re in Japan and we’re all jealous of that :)

    So, Adam, how about Hot Fuzz next week then?

  4. 17/05/2007Adam Mc say:

    Hot fuzz will pwn your face next week!

    ..wait..that sounds bad..

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