A slightly damp post...

It rained yesterday.
Yeah, yeah, I know. All you Vancouver people are probably going *Yawn* and making snide comments about us Edmonton folk not being able to handle a wee bit of rain.

Well, this rain was nuts. While wearing a coat, you RUN, FULL-TILT from your car to the store (a distance of 10-15yrds max), and you still get SOAKED.

---The following stuff is shamelessly ripped from the Edmonton Journal---
For the south end of the city, Environment Canada's radar reported rainfall of between 44 and 50 millimetres in one hour.
---The previous stuff was shamelessly ripped from the Edmonton Journal---

For the hour that it rained, the water was coming down in sheets. While driving, you couldn't see 20 feet in any given direction. Roads were flooded. Traffic ground to a hault.

It was...
Hey...
Waitaminit...

Ya know something? These Edmonton folk really don't know how to handle rain (notice how I now start to distance myself from these people? *g*). Silly people.

On the upside, the rain did make for a humerous quote in the Journal. They spoke to somebody who's car had stalled in a giant puddle about 1/2metre deep.

"Dumb-ass decided to drive through," passenger [name removed by me] said of his father. "He needs to have his head examined. That marijuana from the '70s caught up with him." *giggle*