As soon as I wrote Al Gore in last post, the sky bursted and
hail came pourring down. At first, it was a usual storm, I mean
this is Mexico City, it rains. But then, hail became bigger, and
bigger, and bigger, until I was deafened by it hitting my
ceiling.
Please don't let there be a
frog in this...
I ran to get the pets indoors, and was struck dumb by what I
saw. Before Mexico City was rebuilt by civilized conquistadores,
this was the Great Tenochtitlan, built over a LAKE. I was beggining
to picture canals instead of streets. On one corner, a foot high
stack of hail; on the other, a cluged up sewer drain.
In this corner, the
heavyweight champion...
Not Good. My bathroom, being indoors, has air ventilation on the
roof; well it too got hailed. My garden, or more suiting what
reamined of what once was a garden, was drowned it freezing water,
covered by hail.
Let it snow, let it snow,
let it snow...
The only other time this much hail has blasted the surface with
it's fury was 1998, Al Gore'......