It was a sunny Sunday afternoon.. I was in my bedroom, enjoying the relaxing afternoon and trying not to give into my urge to take a nap. My window was open and I could hear (and feel) the loud techno music the apartment below was playing. The sound of my roomates' occasional giggle or comment to each other coming from the other room was a friendly reminder that I wasn't alone here.
Eventually i gave into my sleepiness. I laid my head on my soft pillow and tried to forget that I had makeup on from the morning and that it would probably be all over my clean pillow case when I woke up.. I don't know how long I slept, but I don't think it was too long before I heard the sound of heavy winds. I opened my sleepy eyes and rolled over to see that my window had blown all the way opened and there were heavy dark clouds looming in the sky.. I quickly closed my windows and went out to warn my roommates that there was going to be a storm. In no more than a minute the wind was blowing so badly that when I looked out my closed window I that I was seeing a tornado! Soon the rain came, a rain that now resembled a hurricane and my roommates and I rushed around the apartment, making sure all the windows were securely closed. I am frequently shocked by the rainstorms here!
I thought we were all out of the clear when I heard a dripping sound in my room... The floor was quickly filling up with water. I moved the rug on my floor to a safe position away from the window where the water was coming in from. There was really no way to stop the water from coming in, since the windows were shut as tight as they could be shut and a bucket wasn't going to stop it from running down my wall.
"What do I do?!" I cried out to my roommate COrina.
"Nothing.. you have to wait it out. But I think the storm will stop soon," she said indifferently.
I didn't know what I wanted at that moment, cause I was enjoying the storm and the chaos it was bringing, but I really didn't want to stand there with a mop the whole time. But Corina was right, and the storm ended in the next 5 minutes. I resolved to leave a towel in the window seal to complete the job I was doing.
Now we are going to open the windows again, cause its too hot to leave them closed. That was my interesting Sunday afternoon.
Sunday, August 24, 2008
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
0 comments:
Post a Comment