It’s raining, it’s pouring

This past Monday a storm hit the metro Detroit area. The worst one in my lifetime, for actually rain. There have been many storms that have caused a lot of damage. But this was poured more rain that any of them. It started to rain in the morning and continued for most of the day. At one point it was coming down that it equaled in just one hour what it does in a normal month. Unfortunately for me, that was after I decided to leave my home and drive across metro Detroit to help Derek out with a few things at his new place.

I left my place at 6:30 pm. It was raining, but nothing to bad. The roads in the area had a little build up of water, but I didn’t take too much notice of it. I wish I had. By the time I entered the expressway five minutes later, the area had flooded to epic levels. I was stuck in traffic on the expressway for over an hour. That was only the beginning of it. Once I left the highway, I almost got stuck in several different mini lakes on the roads. After an hour leaving the highway, I made it another 5 miles towards Derek’s place. At that point I gave in. I knew I wasn’t going to make it to his place. And I wasn’t even sure I’d make it back to my place.

I parked and waited for it to pass over. Once the rain let up some, I decided to try to make it home. It took almost any hour, and following many cars through the flooded roads to get to the intersection closest to my home. But I couldn’t actually get home. The road leading to my neighborhood was flooded. I ended up trying three different way in. Totaling over an hour of trying. Before I found a way to get around the water.

This was the worst experience I’ve ever been in while driving on the road. I’ve driving in blizzards and ice storms that were this bad. I pulled into my driveway a little before 11 pm. Thankful to be one and that my car hadn’t been damaged (I just got it back from the shop).

Many people were not so lucky, 1000′s of cars have been abandoned in the area. Many of the major roads closed Monday night and remained so on Tuesday. Which continued to awful delays for many people. Thankfully the area is better today. But the damage done will take a while to fix.