Around 2:45, the CFO of the company emailed everyone to let them know that with the weather the way it was, anyone who felt the need to leave would be excused.

I hemmed and hawed. I drove through some pretty high water this morning to get to work and it had done nothing out our way except dump more rain. All. Day. Long.

So I decided to go home before it got worse and my tiny little low car got stranded on I-45 like those two gals who died earlier today after trying to drive through some water and underestimating the depth of it.

Side note to other women: You know how they always tell you not to drive through standing water if you can’t see straight through it? Well, they learned that lesson the hard way. Let’s be smart and learn from others’ mistakes now shall we??

So, I crawled home at a sprightly 20 mph. I went through downtown to get to Allen Parkway and pulled off into Eleanor Tinsley Park. Now, keep in mind, that on a normal day, you should not be able to see the water through the trees because it’s way down in the bottom of the bayou. Or something like that. Suffice, you should normally see lots and lots and lots of green green grass and these trees are normally MUCH taller - like twice as tall as what you see in the photos in some cases.

Eleanor Tinsley Park/Bayou Bend

What you don't see is my windshield wipers furiously wiping away lots of rain...

Out the passenger side window

Lots and lots of rain!

Oy...

We give up Mother Nature! But thanks for the knitting time.