Not Driving in Rain

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When I began to drive again in March, I said I would not drive after dark and not while it was raining. The rain almost caught me today. It was raining early in the morning, but when it stopped, the sun came out. I assumed it would continue to shine, so it was a surprise when sprinkles hit the windshield as I drove to town. It didn’t amount to much. I walked into the store, went to the right and shopped for fruits and vegetables. All of a sudden I heard a loud, sustained noise coming from the far end of the store. It sounded like a giant vacuum as wide as the store coming toward me. My eyes darted about to check other people’s reactions, but no one seemed to notice. It reached the ceiling above me, and I realized it was heavy, heavy rain beating on the flat roof. There was one loud thunderclap amid the downpour. I continued shopping, checking the radar on the phone before I went down the last aisle. The rain hadn’t quite cleared where I was. Surprisingly, it had stopped raining and didn’t begin again until I was home.

I noticed this morning that the water level in the bottom pool of the waterfall had dropped dramatically overnight. One hose was still working, but the other had stopped. Thank goodness I saw it and unplugged it before shopping! When things had dried off a bit, I looked at the junction where the hose splits in two directions. I assumed that is where the water leaked, but it was dry. Adding water to the pool and turning on the pump again, I saw it was working normally. Half an hour later it wasn’t. I turned the hose toward the garden and pumped the water from the lowest pool. There were globs of stringy things that had fallen from a tree hanging on the pump. With everything cleaned and back in place, I started the pump again. It seemed to be working perfectly, but I unplugged it before dark, not willing to risk a repeat during the night. I’m still wondering how so much water escaped without leaving evidence.

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Published by Anne Mehrling

I'm a retiree who loves to write about life in the mountains of North Carolina.

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  3. I’m not a fan of driving in the rain. I won’t drive in the dark unless I absolutely have to. Where we live there are no street lights. I had no idea how helpful they are for driving until they weren’t there.

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  4. We were in Barbados in a shopping mall when I heard an awful racket. It was a sudden rainstorm on the tin roof. I hope the waterfall behaves itself.

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    1. I’ve always liked being able to repair things. Some of these house fixes are new to me, some rather daunting. I’m getting to know the people to call, which is half the battle. I’ll bet you are good at managing things around your house.

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      1. I like to think so but there will always be things out of my hands or that I just don’t want to tackel. Like these old windows..Do I want to repair or replace??

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  7. I don’t enjoy driving in the rain and once I had an allergist appointment and went after work. I got home from work, having taken the bus, then drove over – the office is two miles away. It was sunny when I left the house and by the time I arrived, a crash of thunder, lightning and pouring down rain as I tried to find a place in the parking lot. Next came the hail, not like the four-inch hail I told you about the other day, but instead small hail, but for the remaining years I had that burgundy-colored car, on a sunny day you could see the pelt marks from the hail on the roof, trunk and hood.

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      1. I know and we had some hail damage about 25 years ago with the siding… I am grateful we have not had more dangerous weather … everything is topsy turvy now it seems.

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