Here's what always happens when it rains (as it did last night and this morning) in Torreón: intersections lying downhill (even if just by a matter of inches) from their adjoining avenues fill with several inches of water. This wasn't even a particularly hard rain, nor is this one of the worst intersections (I saw one in another part of town in which two ten-year-old boys were up to their knees). Since it only rains like this here maybe six or eight times a year, there isn't a whole lot of interest in spending tens of millions of dollars (or would it be less?) on a functioning drainage system, but it's odd to consider that in a relatively prosperous town, dozens of cars always break down every time it rains (including my mother-in-law's with your blogger driving a few years back). Incidentally, the car best suited for the intersection/ponds is the tiny Dodge Atos, which cuts through the muck like one of those Everglades fan boats.
This is pretty unusual, though; I'm not sure the upper half of the sierra has ever been covered by clouds like it was today.
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Is that an ice cream sundae on your dashboard?
That would be the personal-sized double chocolate cake from D'Marc. Quite the item in my household these days. I'm not much of a sweets eater, but that thing cant last more than an hour or so in my fridge.
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