soaked.

"Ted, come here!"

"Josie, hold on," I called into the cell phone. "What's going on, Corb?"

He stood in the hallway, looking out through the window at our parking lot. "Well...I think we might have a slight problem, here..."

I moved over to look out the window. "Holy shit."

It looks as though the week-long downpours that have stretched across the East Coast are starting to take their toll in Eldredge. Our parking lot has been transformed into a river. And, in order to get to my car, I was going to have to wade through water that appeared to be waist high.

Still and all, that wasn't going to stop us from our quest for coffee and warm muffins. I said goodbye to Josie, and we ran back into the apartment, in order to grab a towel, take off our shoes and socks, and start the trudge across the stream, to get to the safety of my car.

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