Get home from work around 12:30AM, go to sleep.
Wake up, shower, head to Biolife, and they notify me that my iron is too low. No plasmapheresis, no $40.
Pick up my paycheck. $349. Cash it and fill up my tank, $110.
Get to work for my first shift (11:30a-1:00p). It much busier than we expected. We make half our daily projected guest count and sales in just 90 minutes. End up getting out at 2:30.
Get ready for my second shift (5:00p-1:00a). As I walk out the door, my 11-month-old Border Collie dog runs out the door. It's already starting to rain, lightning, and tornado sirens. Manage to coax him back inside.
Driving to work, a semi heading my way. I try to slow down and move to the side. My car hydroplanes and won't respond to either steering or turning, me doing 50 heading straight for a semi. Get traction at the last second and avoid the truck.
Rain is horrible on the way to work, trenches under tires.
Get to work and we all sit around, not clocked in. Storm gets bad. The clouds would randomly switch which direction they traveled every couple minutes. Suddenly all the windows on all sides of the building were plastered with water. We all headed to the men's room for safety.
No tornado, we all sit around some more... a little dinner rush. Close some more, getting another rush around 9:00...
Close occurs, lightning continues, the storm is just hovering above us it seems.
Get a call that Oshkosh is in a state of emergency
Sara calls me, she got caught in water and her car killed, should she try restarting it tomorrow? "No"
Get done with work, head home. I notice standing water too late, and I'm in it. I keep a steady pace, trying not to splash water too high. I hear shouting, and there's people at the gas station across the street saying "It only gets deeper, it's safer over here". So I turn to the gas station, but the entrance of the driveway dips me just low enough that my engine sucks up water, killing.
Turns out, had I just gone straight, everything would've been fine -- even Saturns were making it across, just as long as they went slow and smooth, while I saw a Charger R/T Daytona completely die in the middle of the water because he was trying to race through it.
Walk back to work, Shawn is kind enough to try to get me home -- we end up taking five different streets to avoid standing water.
So here I sit, wearing only a towel, 2:44 AM, worst day of my life. My health is low, my bank account is empty, and my car's engine has water in it.
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