A Little Rain

Location: Kuala Lumpur (KL), Malaysia
Local Time: Wednesday, April 26, 2006 - 3:32pm

Well, I was out and about this morning, then I came back to the hostel to do some reading. Someone mentioned to me that it is raining outside, but I didn't think anything of it. It is KL, it rains all the time here.

Well, I wandered outside to go to the grocery store, and as I approach the street I can hear thunder and see flashes of lightening.

Then I notice there is water in the street. Then I notice the water in the street occasionally slops over the curb, because the water in the street is all the way up to the top of the curb, all the way across the street and running down the street like a river.

Cars drive by, submerged up to the axle.

The restaurant next door, it is lower than the sidewalk. So every time a car drives by, it makes a wave which washes over the curb, across the sidewalk and adds to the water in the restaurant.

The drainage at the street is completely full, all the way up to sidewalk level.

A girl in the hostel just got back from a little walk. She says the market, in the street, about a block away is knee high in water.

It's a little wet out there.