What is a Flash Flood?

I'm glad you asked. Before today I guess I never really understood what the difference between a regular flood and flash flood. Especially the urgency of interrupting TV with it.

I went to venture off into my day and I'm driving around and getting high first, like normal. Everything is find. An hour and a half later, I'm leaving my friends house and coming home to eat lunch. Now it is 5 o'clock (In marijuana minutes 5pm is my noon.) As I'm driving I keep having to cross these spots where water is coming over the road, but the road is not shut down. 30 seconds later my inner monolouge is saying, "Holy shit. This water is deeper than it looked.) About the 3rd time it happened someone had to get out of their car in the middle bc their car got stuck. Then I pass and come to another spot.... Same thing. Eventually I get home and call my mom to tell her to stay on main roads and she tells me the interstate is completely stopped.

Now I know what a flash flood is. It literally floods so fast that everything is flooded in an instant, at the same time. I've always thought that those idiots who get their cars stuck -that you see on the news- were just idiots. It turns out that I think they are just normal people trying to get home during rush hour. They didn't get their car stuck b/c they knew it was that deep. It just flooded everywhere so fast that the roads weren't all able to get shut down so quick, and this is third aversion from something that looked to deep. They HAD to go because it looked more shallow than all their other attempts and it was the absolute last road they could think of to get home.

I think I'm in a flash flood right now. I took a picture of one of those wall clouds that was pictured in Kerry's cloud photo post. When I get less high, I'll post it.