Rain Rain GO AWAY!

I was roused from slumber by the sound of my mother’s car out in the driveway. I quickly sat up and stared disbelievingly at the clock. The alarm had been going off for twenty minutes and hadn‘t even dented my dreams. I flew out of bed, blindly grabbed some clothes out of my closest, and thanked my lucky stars that Mom was a few minutes early.
On the way to work, we heard that part of I-85 was closed due to flooding from clogged storm drains and that there had been a California-style mudslide on 78 at Hugh Howell Road. As various reports rolled in throughout the day, our boss decided to let us go home at 3:00. That was bumped up to 2:45 when the clouds turned black and the bottom fell out of the sky. The rain was torrential and the road was covered with standing water. I wasn’t incredibly nervous until we reached a large, muddy pool that sent water spraying on both sides of the vehicle. The car felt heavy as it plowed through the water, and I began to wonder if we were ever going to drive out of it. Run-off was blocked by a concrete median, so water was flowing straight down the road. It was a little like riding uphill through a waterfall.
I didn’t have my camera, but these pictures were posted online and were taken near my office.

This is what I could see through the passenger window.

And this is what roads looked like all over metro Atlanta.