0% chance of rain

Yesterday was the Old Fashioned Days kick-off parade. All week long, looking at the weather forecasts had shown a great chance of rain on Thursday. But Thursday morning we wake up to wet ground and the Holly Strano telling us that it was going to clear in the morning and we were going to have a beautiful, less humid day with no chance of rain. Great! The band had 4 days of practice and was ready to march. At 5:15 Jake picked up Patrick and Mike and I left the house to pick up Jacob from football practice. When we got to the corner of 528 and Middle Ridge we see that the traffic is backed up heading into town. We make the decision to not come back that way after we get JB. As far as parking, we don't have many options if we don't go 528, but it's a beautiful evening and we decide to park at Amy's house, about 1/2 mile from town. As we're walking toward town, I realize that 1/2 mile seems a lot shorter when I'm running! It was quite a hike to the parade.

The parade was it's usual hour long, but with much fewer twirler/dancer groups! Maybe only 8 or 9. The band was great and I think the whole town was there. I ate my cheese-on-a-stick and funnel cake (with powdered sugar AND cinnamon sugar) and the boys had their lemonade. As the parade was ending we see a blackish cloud descending from the northwest. We tour the square and make our way to the dunk tank to meet Tammy and figure out how we're getting the boys to their campsite. When I meet Tammy it's starting to drizzle just a bit. We figure out the logistics of travel and head our separate ways. We're walking back to our car in the slight drizzle when we see it ~ "Oh, no! It's a WALL," Patrick says. Sure enough, a WALL of rain is just feet in front of us. We just get SLAMMED with water. It was just like a movie...water coming straight at us. It's swirling and coming sideways like buckets were just being thrown at us. We all start to run, trying to keep our phones dry! Mike gets really ahead and I stop under a tree to wait for JB who is really far behind. A lady opens her front door and motions for me to come up on her porch. I do, how nice! and wait for Jacob. He shows up asking why we didn't wait for him! Finally Mike and Patrick pick us up in the truck. It was UNBELIEVABLE! WE WERE DRENCHED!