The Storm

My mom and I took the kids to a drive-in restaurant just to get out of the house one evening. The plan was to let them get outside and play for a while since there's a little play area behind the restaurant. As soon as we stepped out the door it started sprinkling. On the way up there it started raining harder. By the time we got up there it was pouring so hard the waitresses wouldn't come out to the car to take our order so my mom had to go in. When they did bring our food out to us we just got it to go so we didn't have to sit in the parking lot. It was raining so hard that we couldn't even have our windows cracked so my mom opened the back door of her van so we could get a little bit of air in the car without having to worry about the water getting in, too. Unfortunately, when she closed the door all of the water that had collected on it came pouring off the door and completely drenched her! It was hilarious... On our way back to my mom's house it started raining harder, then it was hailing, and then the streets were so filled with water we could barely drive through it! Then, the rain started to let up little by little until by the time we got home it was barely sprinkling. We were left wondering, "What the heck was that all about??"