The cats and dogs have drowned

The heavens have opened up and we are having a LOT of rain here in LA. (No, I don’t want to hear your east-of-the-Rockies sob stories. I live in California and nice weather is a right.)

What makes this deluge particularly unpleasant is the roads here in the Valley, which for some reason possibly lost to history are convex. So the shoulder of every road is several inches lower than the middle of the road. The shoulders of the road are severely underwater. The middles of some roads are under water, where water came up to the bottom of the door. There were a few places where I thought, “This is it, we’re going to lose traction in the middle of this road, and this minivan is going to float away with me and two kids.”

You can just feel the glee of all the SUV drivers on the road going, “Ha! I have an SUV! This is no problem!” (Which is one of the reasons for the popularity of SUVs—and of cell phones, for that matter. They don’t require infrastructure. You have yours, and everyone else be damned. But that’s an entry for another time.)

I wonder if the preschool is open today. Or underwater.

Update: This is a picture I stole from the LA Times. This is what I was afraid of washing away in this morning.