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Monsoon season sucks

I am SOOO over monsoon season. For those of you that don’t live in Arizona.. we have these little things every summer calls MONSOONS. For two months straight we get massive rainfall and the city floods and roads close and people die in washes.. yeah the whole 9 yards.

So yesterday evening I was at work and it was 5:30pm which is when I go home.. but the rain was coming in sideways sooo hard that I was like “fuck that I’ll wait.” FINALLY at 6pm I leave. It normally takes me 10-15 minutes to drive home from my office.. IT ENDED UP TAKING ME A FULL FUCKING HOUR YESTERDAY!! THAT IS 60 FLIPPING MINUTES PEOPLE!! Not to mention I almost died and shit.

I get on Grant Road and the traffic is horrendus. When I pass the Swan intersection there is a dip in the road for about 20 feet and I barely thought I was gonna make it through.. but I did. The traffic is so fucked over that we are just inching.. inching.. inching along until 1/2 a mile later I see a cop car has barricaded Grant Roat because the POWER LINES ARE FALLING INTO THE STREET and is rerouting cars down Walnut, a residential neighborhood street. I managed to take a pic with my cellphone of how flooded Grant Road was before turning onto Walnut. There is a big ass curb underneath that water by the way.

THIS IS WHERE IT GETS BADDDD. Inching down this residential street was torture. IT LOOKED LIKE A RIVER!! You could not see any road at all.. you only saw water. I was driving through a freaking river. The water went up over the curb and was at the front doors of these peoples’ houses.

THEN IT GOT WORSE. We had to turn onto Flower, which is another residential street that happens to be in the FEMA flood zone.. yay. THE WATER WAS SOOOO DEEP!!! There was 4 or 5 cars that were sitting in the road stuck and stalled out with their hazard lights on because they couldn’t move!!! I was like HOLY FUCK because my car is sooooo low.. its lower then most cars and I thought for sure I was screwed. The water was literally up to my car door and I could hear “bloob bloob bloob bloob bloob” like you hear if you’re on a boat in the lake or something. So I am literally having a spaz attack freaking out and crying because traffic is moving soooooooo slow just inch by inch.. and I couldn’t pull over because the closer you got to the curb the deeper the water was.. and there was a zillion cars in front of me and behind me so I was literally trapped there in this deep ass water. My car had turned into a fucking submarine. Smoke was starting to come out from under my hood which made me freak out even more because I was so scared that I was gonna get stuck there and I didn’t know what to do!!! I kept cussing out the traffic and the rain and praying that I wouldn’t get stuck in the middle of the road/river and finally after 15 minutes of torture I made it to where it was shallow. I hauled ass home and vowed to hate the rain forever. I got sooo shaken up it really freaked me out

Tucson was literally built with ZERO drains in the streets so the water had nowhere to go it just kept building and building and getting deeper and deeper. Here are some pictures that were on Arizona Daily Star’s website of yesterday’s flooding. This was RIGHT where I was..

Wednesday, July 25th, 2007 at 11:07 pm and is filed under General. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.