Summer Storms

It was a lovely afternoon last Sunday, so we decided to go for a walk as a family.  So we pulled out the double jogging stroller and the kids hopped in.  We hadn't gotten very far when we looked up at the sky ahead of us and saw how dark it looked.  Then, as if we were in a Hollywood movie, we saw a spot in the sky start dumping rain right in front of us.  We turned around and started to run for home and the rain came right after us, chasing us back to our house.  Luckily we made it back to the house, and ran inside.

That would've been a nice close call, but we foolishly decided that we could still go for our walk if we just grabbed our umbrellas.  So we grabbed the monster umbrella for us and a small one for the kids and headed back out.  For the first few minutes the umbrella was able to keep the rain off us, but then mother nature kicked it into over drive.  It started raining so hard that the kids ditched their umbrella, pulled down the covers on the stroller and began screaming bloody murder as water began pooling at their feet.  Tara and I ended up getting the worst of it, and our clothes totally soaked through up past the waist.  It only took us 5 minutes to walk home in the flooded streets, but man, what a mini adventure.

This picture doesn't really do justice to how hard it was raining, but you can start to see how the streets were flooding after only 5 minutes.  Tara and I had a good laugh through the whole thing.