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Monsoon season sucks

chels — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 23:07:11 +0000

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..

Truck full of mexicans!!!

chels — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 18:30:43 +0000

OH NO! YOU’VE BEEN HIT BY THE:

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Sorry they have no insurance…looks like you’re screwed!

LMAO I got this comment on myspace a few days ago and thought it was the funniest shit ever. It’s especially funny if you live in Tucson. Speaking of that.. I found the most hilarous list of Tucson traffic pet peeves:

1. You must learn to pronounce the city name. It is Tu-son, not Tuck-sin.

2. Forget the traffic rules you learned elsewhere. Tucson has its own version of traffic rules…hold on and pray. There is no such thing as a dangerous, high-speed chase in Tucson. They all drive like that.

3. All directions start with, “Go down to Ina Rd.”… Which has no beginning and no end.

4. The Chamber of Commerce calls getting through traffic a “Scenic Drive.”

5. The morning rush hour is from 7:00 – 10:00 am. The evening rush hour is from 3:00 – 7:00 pm. Friday’s rush hour starts Thursday morning.

6. If you actually stop at a yellow light, you will be rear ended, cussed out, and possibly shot. When you are the first one off of the starting line, count to five when the light turns green before going to avoid getting into any cross-traffic’s way.

7. La Cholla Road and La Canada Road can only be pronounced by a native.

8. Construction on I-10, Cortaro Farms Rd., and near the University of Arizona is a way of life and a permanent form of entertainment.

9. All unexplained sights are explained by the phrase, “Oh, we must be in Tucson!!!”

10. If someone actually has their turn signal on, it is probably a defect.

11. All old ladies with blue hair in pink Cadillacs have total right-of-way.

12. The minimum acceptable speed on I-10 is 85. Anything less is considered downright sissy.

13. The wrought iron on windows in south Tucson is NOT ornamental.

14. Never stare at the driver of the car with the bumper sticker that says, “Keep honking, I’m reloading.” In fact, don’t honk or look at anyone.

15. If you are in the left lane, and only going 70 in a 60-mph zone people are not waving when they go by.

16. Sunrise Rd/Skyline Dr./Ina Rd. is our daily version of NASCAR (and all the same road by the way).

17. There are three Magee Rd.’s in Tucson, and in some places, one of them is called Cortaro, try not to be confused.

18. If you speed in Oro Valley, you WILL get pulled over and you will pay for the rest of your life!

20. One Hardy Rd. is a safe normal road. The other will take you on the edge of a dirt cliff with no guard rail and no way to turn around. Be careful which one you get on!

21. If you are driving and you keep seeing Nico’s Taco Shop, you are not going in circles, there is in fact one on every corner.

22. There are no freeways running through Tucson, just the I-10 to the West, so always expect about a 45-minute drive to go anywhere.

23. If you get pulled over by a cop, make sure it is a real cop and not a gang initiation with fake lights because you will be shot.

24. Drive 45 minutes South and you will hit the Mexico border…turn around, Nogales is nothing special at all!

25. Tangerine Rd. will make you car sick…very bumpy, and lots of dips.

26. The intersection at Oracle and Ina is considered one of the most dangerous intersections in the southwest United States.

27. If the temperature is less than 100 degrees, Thanksgiving must be next week.

28. If you get a flat, do not ask ANYONE for help. Call AAA and lock your doors.

29. Bored teenagers in Tucson drive around for fun, weird, but watch out.

30. “Cruising Speedway” is a form of entertainment. If you are bored, drive down Speedway for a couple of hours and keep making U-Turns at Wilmot and Alvernon by the Empress Strip Club. Hopefully you will find it exhilarting too. :-)

31. Grant Rd. has been nicknamed “Suicide Lane.” During certain hours of the day, the middle turn lane thingy allows traffic going different ways. Some hours it goes East, some hours it goes West, and other hours it is merely a turning lane. Make sure you know the hours or follow signs so you are not in head-on traffic.Smart, huh?

32. campbell is one of those roads that has no beginning and no end. if you drive down it you will come across over 1000 resturaunts.

33. You remember when the suicide lanes were still actually suicide lanes, and you know what times they changed back and forth.

34. You navigate by a mountain range (ex. the Catalinas for North).

35. You see air force jets more often than you see wild animals.

36. You know not to leave trash where the javelinas can find it.

37. You never need to check the weather because it never really changes.

38. You’ve seen (or put up) Christmas lights on cacti.

39. You know that there’s no sand in the real desert, just dirt and cacti and some shrubs.

40. You hate Phoenix and can give at least 10 reasons why.

SNOW!!!

chels — Mon, 22 Jan 2007 17:27:33 +0000

Can you believe it?? IT SNOWED IN TUCSON ARIZONA!!!! And I’m not just talking about a little slush.. it snowed ALLLLLLLLL NIGHT LONG ♥♥♥

You have no idea how excited I was. I mean.. when I see snow just in the mountains I go crazy. This was the first time in my wholllllle that I had ever seen snow fall. Sure my friends and I have driven up to the mountains and played in the snow before, but I’ve never seen it fall!!! It was amazing. Everything was sooo beautiful.

There was still snow everywhere when I woke up this morning too! I went out to my car at about 8am to go to work and my door was frozen shut!!! I had to sit there and pull on it 20 times. Of course all my windows were covered with ice. I finally was able to get my windsheild clean enough to see through, but my side windows were still snow-covered. I figured I could just roll them down when I needed to turn (desert rat logic). So I get to a point where I have to turn left, and I try rolling my windows down, BUT I CANT! THEY’RE FUCKING FROZEN SHUT!!! I had to actually put my car in park and get out to look for traffic. I was laughing my ass off at myself.

I sooooo wish it would snow here more. I loveeeeee it!!!! Here are some pictures of a rarely seen white desert.

Erm

chels — Fri, 07 Jul 2006 00:21:22 +0000

Nothing new in the amazing life of Chelsey. I’ve been pretty slammed down with business from my design website, chels.net. I’ve been doing everything from logos to newspaper ads. I have TONS lined up for the next few months too.. a camgirl paysite, a homeowner association site, an auction site, etc. I’m really getting used to all of the extra money coming in from the sidework, but damn I’m a busy girl.

My 4th of July weekend was pretty sweet. I had 4 days off work WAHOO! So Michael and I drove up to Phoenix and ate some In N’ Out burger.. mmmm. I could live on that shit. And my bestest buddy Manda drove in with her hubby from California so we got to hang out and get tipsy for awhile. I wish she still lived in Tucson with me ;( Oh well.. the marines needs her more then I do I guess. Plus we would probably be in jail or something by now if she didn’t live 500 miles away from me lol.

On another note.. I’m sick as fuck of this weather. 105 degree average wtf?! I’m moving to Alaska.