the rain in Spain...I mean, London

Today I wished I had a car. When I woke up the wind was blowing so hard it sounded like thunder against the side of my building (it's been sounding like this the last couple of days)...and I could hear rain pelting against the windows. So the whole time I was getting ready I was eagerly anticipating walking to the station in that weather. I opted to wear a hat hoping that it might in some way protect my hair. Umbrellas don't do too much good with horizontal rain but I tried anyway. I survived, but my hair didn't. Oh well, at least I wasn't caught in a tornado! After work apparently the traffic was so bad the shuttle bus to the train station wasn't able to make its regular stops. After waiting about 20 minutes someone said the bus was still stuck in traffic. I had no choice but to walk to the station. Fortunately it had just stopped raining sideways so I walked as fast as I could to make it for the next train. It would have been nice to hop into my Mazda3 and ride away, although I guess I would have still been stuck in traffic.