Heavy shower and I.
By DoctorDidi
@DoctorDidi (7018)
India
August 8, 2011 7:38am CST
It has been raining cats and dogs for the last few hours. I am confined in my flat and cannot go outdoors. So I will not be able to attend my patients at the chamber. Moreover, heavy rain has already caused water logging in the premises of our housing complex which remains at a lower level than the surrounding areas and no corrective measures were taken before construction started. So water logging is a regular feature here after a heavy bout of shower. It will take at least a couple of hours for the complete draining out of the accumulated water. So I have no other alternative but to work on my computer. Have also any such experience due to heavy rain?
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9 responses
@hardworkinggurl (37062)
• United States
19 Aug 11
We have had moment when it was impossible to drive and or walk outdoors due to heavy rains and or floods. But not severely as you mentioned as somehow we have been able to make it from point A to point B.
That really had to be a lot of rain for you to be completely confined.
@inertia4 (27978)
• United States
15 Aug 11
There's nothing like that here in New York City, but I do know that there are parts of one Island and New Jersey that get flooding. That would bother me, the fact that I could not get out of my house due to some rain. At least you have a computer to do some work on and pass the time.
@celticeagle (189819)
• Boise, Idaho
9 Aug 11
I would trade you some warm weather for some rain. We were supposed to get some thunder and lightning afew days ago and it never happened. I do like the rain. Not when it goes on for ever but those nice evening showers we used to get when I was a young girl. (I was once really I was!) Those were the nicest showers.
@missybear (11391)
• United States
12 Aug 11
Not here in Las Vegas, it doesn't rain enough but were I'm from {GERMANY} they been getting lots of rain this year and had quite a few floods.
@dismalgrin (2604)
• United States
9 Aug 11
I love the rain. And we could do with a nice heavy rain around here. Once, when I lived in Texas, we had a flash flood come out of the middle of nowhere. My daughter had just run out of formula and I walked out the front door of our apartment to find the whole parking-lot flooded! It hadn't even rained in months there. I needed formula for my daughter so I did a very desperate and stupid thing. I found a neighbor and got her to watch my daughter while I proceeded to swim through the flood waters to the local grocery store. About halfway there I realized that not only would the grocery store be closed due to the flooding, but that no matter how good of a swimmer I am there was no telling what kinds of dangers lurked in the flood water that I couldn't see. It was getting dark so I turned around and swam back to my daughter. I showered and dressed and soon the police came around to check on me and I told them the story. They took us out the back and bussed us to the civic center where volunteers had formula for my daughter to use. She was two weeks old at the time and the local news people thought that our story was interesting so we ended up on the News! I try to keep stocked of everything I need now and even things I don't need. I have formula in my pantry now even though I don't have any babies, but you never know when something like that might happen to another mother and then I can help her.
@toniganzon (77084)
• Philippines
9 Aug 11
I'm thankful that i don't need to get stranded due to heavy rain and light flooding. Two years ago we experienced the worst flood ever and it ruined all our belongings including electronic gadgets and appliances. So i told my husband we need to buy a house where there isn't any flood at all and we did.
So i'm thankful that i don't have to experience that at all.
@sarahruthbeth22 (43143)
• United States
8 Aug 11
No . The last time we had That amount of rainfall it was due to a hurricane. We have the opposite problem, drought! It has been a very long time since we had a steady amount of rain.
@catof1 (683)
• United States
8 Aug 11
Well where I am at we need the rain and we can't seem to get any rain due to a high pressure zone right over our state and others as well. We have not had this type of drought in a long long long time. Everything is dying and I feel horrible for those out in the heat and those with out a house; they have no reprieve.
I have experienced flooding due to storms but the most notable one I can remember was a tropical storm called Allison. It was horrindous and flooded EVERYTHING. The medical center was flooded the people in hospitals were in terrible danger and cars were FLOATING down the streets! As much as I need and want more rain we don't need that type of rain. I hope that it gets better for you over there!










