Spoke too soon

About that "no monsoon this year" thing.... Ug. The past two weeks we've had on and off bouts of severe storms, complete with torrential downpours and high winds. My poor garden is suffering and my backyard is a lake.

My neighborhood is just not good for drainage at all. Yesterday morning, as I was leaving for work, a HUGE severe thunderstorm moved through and turned my neighborhood streets into rivers. Literally. Rivers. I drove through higher water than I should have and almost floated away! I got washed up onto a curb and had to drive over some downed tree limbs. That was on a street just two blocks south of me. I'm soooo lucky my street doesn't flood like that.