On Vox: I thought is was the zombiepocalypse...
(posted to FB, skip if you heard this before.)
Back in Philly. MIL has been bugging me to take her to the cemetery. I take her. She doesn't remember where her husband's grave is. Then the wind picks up, trees start to hit her in the head, lightening and thunder roll in, I scream "EVERYBODY GET IN THE CAR!" as soon as Phil closes his door, torrential downpour complete with golf ball hail starts coming down. I pull under a tree to protect the car from hail, we hear a crack, I gun it to open ground. We get out of the cemetery to find that the world is chaos, no traffic lights, mega flooding, downed powerlines and trees, accidents and madness. Emergency crews and cops and EMTs, light flashing and horns blaring. I get lost and it takes us two hours to get back to her house.
Originally posted on coffee.vox.com