da | Tuesday the Wet

Yesterday's storms hit me coming and going. My day started in Toronto, where I spent the night with

melted_snowball; he's there through this afternoon for a conference. I found it a good visit as one-day vacations go. But then was the getting home.

I parked our car at the Yorkdale mall, and by early afternoon, I was already on the road back home, when bam the rains started and became quite heavy quite quickly. As far as I can tell from the weather map and the radio, there was a fairly intense front that moved across the 401 just before I came through. The only really scary part of the drive was when I hit my first patch of the road being resurfaced- there was more than a few cm of water in the trough that was my lane, which made the conditions quite different quite quickly.

So, after 30 minutes of slow wet going, the weather cleared up and shortly I was on dry pavement again. As it was all the way home. I picked up

roverthedog from the kennel, dropped her at home, then biked to work in partial sunshine.

I had one eye on the radar map, but I lost a gamble that I'd leave before the rain hit. And wow did it hit. So I stayed an extra hour, worked some more, chatted with

sulle_stelle and rebooted stuff when the power went off for a second. I didn't see any of the hail or damaging wind, though the wind seemed quite strong at the University. The weather station recorded a record 24mm of rain between 7:30 and 7:45pm. I waited until 8, then made my way back in a light (but quite chilly) shower. My route home was flood-free, fortunately. Not like this, a shot taken for the local paper, of the four lane road just by Rover's kennel:

And now I have a UPS for my computer, and a very wet lawn that I didn't get to mow before today's rains started, and I wonder what the weather will be like for tonight's ride home. And hopefully the basement is still dry.