Zach's excited walking face
We then made our way home when it began to sprinkle. We hung around the house a bit before we got hit with our first true Houston storm. At first we were like, cool, lets sit outside on the balcony and watch the storm go by. Until the two loudest lightning thuds we've both ever heard hit, and then we recoiled like little babies inside our apartment. Then, we decided to take little films. Enjoy.
Note the "is that hail? there's hail coming down!" "Okay, now it's time to get in"
While it was storming, I decided to entertain myself and watch a documentary about a 3 Michelin star sushi restaurant in Tokyo, called Jiro Dreams of Sushi. It was an incredibly inspiring movie with some delicious snapshots of sushi. I couldn't finish watching the movie until I began to crave sushi. The storm began to subside and Zach and I agreed to go pick some up. On our way out, we saw a lady that was covered in mud crossing one of the small bridges inside our apartment community. She was trying to rescue some kittens that had been caught under the bridge when it began to flood. Zach tried to help her, but he couldn't get the kitty out. Luckily the water began to drain and we hoped the mom would be able to get her kitten.
We left to get sushi, and it began to rain heavily again. The roads were a mess with traffic lights out, flooded streets and broken branches. We got close to the restaurant when we realized going out was a terrible idea. We placed our order and had to go to the bank to get some cash since the storm was affecting their credit card machine. As soon as we stepped out into the swamped parking lot, lightning striked. Zach and I both jumped. It scared the crap out of us, and even launched two car alarms off. We drove to the ATM which was close by, and I had to withdraw money under a little awning, the whole process took 20 seconds. Here's what I looked like after:
We picked up the sushi and headed home. We promised to never do that again.. even though it was soo worth it.