“Do not be angry with the rain; it simply does not know how to fall upwards.” Vladmir Nobokov

It certainly cannot, although I sure wished it could after my walk to school this morning.  What normally takes 20 minutes took over an hour as I tried to weave my way through the neighborhood, avoiding getting splashed by cars or stepping in calf-deep rivers of rain water.  I could not get a taxi, as every other person was more forward thinking than I and the line was busy for 30 minutes until I finally gave up.

 Unfortunately, the torrent did not let up for several hours, turning Asuncion's streets into raging rivers and leaving me nearly stranded.  It's a little hard to see in the video, but you cannot even see the streets from all the water and some were even impassable for cars.  I got to work late and the veterans to this kind of storm laughed at me and said, "Wait, aren't you from the Northwest?"  It made me miss Seattle rain.