Ahoy, Einstein. Men in rubber boats are looking for you.

You gotta love Dallas. After another summer of drought and practically no precipitation whatsoever since the middle of June, we got swacked with a large line of severe thunderstorms today that threw our creeks and rivers into a RED ALERT FLASH FLOOD WARNING about 10 minutes after it started raining. Holy crap, people. A city this size can’t handle two inches of rain without flooding? I just read that a group of Einsteins tried fishing from a creek along I-30 this afternoon — yes, in the middle of a thunderstorm — when one of them fell into the water and got swept away. Apparently the aforementioned creek transformed from a dry pit to raging rapids in less than half an hour and now there’s an all-night search and rescue operation underway in rubber boats. Ahoy, Einstein.

Incidentally, in the middle of this afternoon’s crappy weather we wound up with a two-hour power outage here at Howdygram headquarters. Sam and I marked the occasion by sleeping since there’s not much else to do without electricity.

A snack would be an excellent idea right about now. Send cookies. Thank you for reading this.