Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day, 1968
If you live in the Southeastern section of the United States the incessant rain has become quite familiar to you.
A couple weeks ago I thought Huntsville was seeing the rainiest week ever so I decided to go out in the deluge and snap some pictures.
In order to do this I had too traverse the swamp that was my back yard but anything for the readers.
That's just the kind of selfless of blogger I am.
Let me just maneuver around this puddle here...
A river had decided to take it's route half way through our backyard.
I took this little video of the ditch behind our house whooshing with water.
Thrilling I know...
The drive up to my Mom's was very watery too.
Waterfalls and the like.
After all this rain I should have been prepared.
See...
Saturday morning I dragged my Mom to an estate sale. I decided to park on the side of the road in the dirt.
It turns out that the dirt was actually mud.
Sticky, gooey, muddy mud.
And the rental car...
Well, it got stuck.
Super stuck.
Had to call a tow truck stuck.
The tow truck driver eventually dragged me out.
Hey!
Did you know that something called a Water Truck exists?
You would think with all this rain we wouldn't need water trucks but they actually perform a pretty important service.
See, when new construction is being done you are going to have a bunch of dirt sitting around. Think subdivisions etc. When it rains the dirt obviously turns to mud and then runs out into the street.
Anal people then get irritated that there is dirt in their street and call the people in charge about it.
And so:
Enter the water dragon!
Er...
Enter the water truck.
We watch way too much Bruce Lee around here.
It has high pressured water canons on it that spray the roads down after the rain to clean them off.
Just a tip though:
Do not use google images to search for 'water truck.'
Apparently at Burning Man every year there is a water truck that sprays people.
And some nakedness goes along with it.
And that nakedness...it's not always pretty.
Man...
How did we go from a Winnie the Pooh song to Burning Man?
Crazy.
It's all this rain.
It's making me crazy.
Not crazy enough to head to Burning Man but you get my watery drift.
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