The forecast was right, it did rain, and the tennis did get cancelled for tonight. However, the rain made the journey to my tournament an interesting one. Usually all we do on our trips is argue, but today we didn’t argue at all. I was surprised.
My 15 year old brother started driving, but when the wind picked up and it started to rain, he couldn’t handle it. He turned off and stopped in the middle of a random exit ramp. I then decided to drive, because my mom gets very flustered when driving in unfavorable conditions. After another half hour, we set the GPS to not send us on the interstate. That’s when the fun started. Instead of sending us down a nice two lane highway, it tells us to turn down a one lane gravel/dirt road. This wouldn’t have been so bad if it hadn’t been raining. I’m driving and I see that the road is flooded up ahead. I asked my mom what I should do because I’d never crossed a flooded road before. To my surprise she said to cross, and I safely did. I go a few more hundred feet and see it flooded again. This time to my right it looked like a person was lying dead on the road. Luckily it was just some thrown out sheets. We past the flooded road again and kept going. Then it started to be more mud than water. We had to cross twice where the mud had overtaken the path. .2 miles from the next turn we are forced to turn around because a tree trunk was blocking the road. Somehow we safely arrived. Hopefully the weather is better tomorrow.
My 15 year old brother started driving, but when the wind picked up and it started to rain, he couldn’t handle it. He turned off and stopped in the middle of a random exit ramp. I then decided to drive, because my mom gets very flustered when driving in unfavorable conditions. After another half hour, we set the GPS to not send us on the interstate. That’s when the fun started. Instead of sending us down a nice two lane highway, it tells us to turn down a one lane gravel/dirt road. This wouldn’t have been so bad if it hadn’t been raining. I’m driving and I see that the road is flooded up ahead. I asked my mom what I should do because I’d never crossed a flooded road before. To my surprise she said to cross, and I safely did. I go a few more hundred feet and see it flooded again. This time to my right it looked like a person was lying dead on the road. Luckily it was just some thrown out sheets. We past the flooded road again and kept going. Then it started to be more mud than water. We had to cross twice where the mud had overtaken the path. .2 miles from the next turn we are forced to turn around because a tree trunk was blocking the road. Somehow we safely arrived. Hopefully the weather is better tomorrow.
Heather
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