When it rains, it pours...then mudslides

So last night Beth and I went over to see Randy and Iniyal's place for the first time and to have dinner with them. Iniyal cooked us the tastiest--and only Inidian--food we've had here. That really should be a whole post in itself.


While there, it really began to rain. We headed out around 10 to drive over to Kelly's place because there was a birthday party going on for one of her roommates. As we were leaving Randy and Iniyal's complex, we came upon some low areas that had really collected water. Then it got worse as we began driving through deeper water. I really thought our car might lose control to the water when it started coming in waves over the hood! I also thought the engine might get flooded. Thankfully it was a quiet side street with no other traffic, so we didn't have to worry about other drivers. Miraculously we made it through fine and got back out onto the main avenue we live on. From there we drove over to Kelly's, taking it nice and slow as the sides of the avenue were fairly flooded and it was still raining hard.

While at Kelly's, her roommate, Rebe, got a call from a friend telling her that part of Vista Hermosa (the main avenue we live off of) had been closed due to a mudslide! We were concerned because we weren't sure how to get home if the road was closed before our apartment (we weren't about to try and figure out a detour at night and in the rain and in our new car). Thankfully we heard later on that the road was closed shortly after our building and we'd be fine getting home. When we got back, we could see from our kitchen window down below onto Vista Hermosa, and it turned out the mudslide was directly in front of our building! It was so dark that we couldn't tell the volume of mud on the road, just that there was something there. We also couldn't get a good picture of it, though we tried. I was up at 6 this morning and traffic was still being directed around it (thought it was open again by 8). Pretty crazy stuff.