The rains came down...

Here's the latest from the BBC.  What will really happen?  Who knows.  It feels a bit like Snow-mageddeon in Michigan last year, but at the same time, the floods north of us are altogether too real, and well, it's been raining most of the past 24 hours.  Woke up at 1am to a huge storm. The street immediately in front of the school is flooded, but it doesn't take more than a soccer team spitting to flood it, so it's not a good indicator.  The school is definitely taking lots of precautions- placing sandbags at all the gates, telling students to take all their textbooks home in case we need to send them their assignments via email next week.  But generally speaking, life continues on as normal.  Went to the mall after school to hunt down some wellies (even if the water only gets ankle deep, it's full of nastiness [read: sewage] and debris and potentially snakes) but was unsuccessful in finding any.  So, had some dinner and foot massage, bought a rug for the apartment, had a cup of tea.  The government says the defenses will hold, but of course they have to say that.  While I don't think that Flood-ageddeon is going to arrive on my doorstep, I'm not sure I entirely trust what the government is saying either.  At any rate, it keeps life interesting.