Tuesday, June 28, 2005

The Night of the Great Deluge

So there we were at work, getting the pallets off of the truck, when we were subjected to one of the hardest, loudest thunderstorms I can remember. The lightning was so close to us we could actually see where it was hitting the ground. Several of the young men were helping with the truck ( a process that takes about 40 minutes) and they quickly disrobed down to their shorts and were yelling and kicking water at each other. It was about this time that I (sensibly being the only one in a rain coat, although it served no purpose as it was soaked through as well) noticed the water on the pavement was about three inches in depth, the rain kept coming, lightning was flashing, and we were handling very large metal machines. So I called the game and got my boys inside STAT.

About 5 minutes later, that's right, the rain stopped. Go figure. But we got rewarded with fresh, hot pizzas from Pizza Hut. We deserved it.

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