blindzebra
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I live in Phoenix and last night we had one of the worst monsoon storms in history.
Over 3 inches of rain fell in about an hour and the city ain't built for that kind of water.
My apartment complex is wall-to-wall Red Cross today, cars are being towed, and many people are homeless.
I was very lucky, one I live on the second floor and two a whole bunch of last minute things kept my car out of the parking lot that became a 4 foot deep lake.
As most of you know I ref basketball and I got switched gyms and game times at the last minute, had I been at my original games, I'd have been home before the storm hit.
As it was I started home in a dust storm that turned to heavy rain, I stopped at a store because it was raining too hard to see. I waited a few minutes and than started home again. I reached the corner my apartment complex is on and was waiting to turn into the back entrance, but I saw a car really throwing up water on the side street, so I went for the front entrance and saw break lights on a pretty steep downslope. I thought screw it, I'll park at the Walgreens, and found high ground.
I walked the half block home, looking like a drowned rat, seeing cars in our parking lot with water up to the windows, and cars floating down the lot.
I crossed the butt deep river that was now the entrance to the complex and made it to my apartment.
Today the place looks like a war zone. All the ground floor apartments in the middle buildings had sunken patios with sliding doors and windows broken out
by 3 to 4 feet of water that pooled up on their patio from what ran off the roof and sidewalks.
My car was safe, unharmed and even cleaner than it was pre-storm.
No damage to my apartment, either I was really lucky.
Others, were not.
Over 3 inches of rain fell in about an hour and the city ain't built for that kind of water.
My apartment complex is wall-to-wall Red Cross today, cars are being towed, and many people are homeless.
I was very lucky, one I live on the second floor and two a whole bunch of last minute things kept my car out of the parking lot that became a 4 foot deep lake.
As most of you know I ref basketball and I got switched gyms and game times at the last minute, had I been at my original games, I'd have been home before the storm hit.
As it was I started home in a dust storm that turned to heavy rain, I stopped at a store because it was raining too hard to see. I waited a few minutes and than started home again. I reached the corner my apartment complex is on and was waiting to turn into the back entrance, but I saw a car really throwing up water on the side street, so I went for the front entrance and saw break lights on a pretty steep downslope. I thought screw it, I'll park at the Walgreens, and found high ground.
I walked the half block home, looking like a drowned rat, seeing cars in our parking lot with water up to the windows, and cars floating down the lot.
I crossed the butt deep river that was now the entrance to the complex and made it to my apartment.
Today the place looks like a war zone. All the ground floor apartments in the middle buildings had sunken patios with sliding doors and windows broken out
by 3 to 4 feet of water that pooled up on their patio from what ran off the roof and sidewalks.
My car was safe, unharmed and even cleaner than it was pre-storm.
No damage to my apartment, either I was really lucky.Others, were not.
