WET & WILD

I feel it in my fingers...I feel it in my toes
 Wet Wet Wet - Love Is All Around Me

Hey guys! Was that rain last Sunday EPIC or what?

Oh, I'm talking to my Lagos peoples here. You crazy wet bunch you.

I mean, twelve hours of rain! That was biblical. On a Sunday? Come on. You just know there was some smiting going down right there.

Me, I was in my house, feet up, watching the disaster unfold via pictures on twitter. Social networking is actually quite awesome, let me tell you. Give a man half the chance and he'll tweet while he drowns. It'd be like;

Car not moving. Water everywhere. Wizkid CD just floated outside the window. :( must climb out and swim to pavement. #dontdull.

However, I would like to take a moment to sympathize with all the people in Lekki who suffered flooded houses and discomfort. I can only imagine how difficult it must've been for you.

That being said...

...did you guys just DIE laughing over those Lekki pictures like I did or WHAT???

How do you handle that though? One minute you're asleep in your bed, the next minute you and your bed are floating through the toll gate, screaming at the people on the roof of Get Arena for help.

I guess desperate times call for desperate measures. It wouldn't hurt to sleep in an inflatable raft ON the bed, y'know? Or maybe, or use something as an anchor in your house and chain it to your leg. Or elbow. There is the small risk of drowning then, but it beats the embarrassment of morosely drifting down the highway in boxers and singlet.

A friend of mine said he was in his house watching the water rise and when he saw, uh, it wasn't stopping, he decided to make a run for it and escape the compound in his car. But then the water got the car and he couldn't go anywhere.

He told me this over the phone. I haven't laughed so hard in months. I laughed so hard tears came out of my eyes and I doubled over making mewling noises. I mean, yeah, he deleted me off his blackberry list and all, but am I the only one that sees how humorous that whole scene is?

Okay. I'm going to go now and do something constructive. The forecast shows at least another seven days of rain.

To anyone that gets stuck in it this time, I want to say just one thing.

Be considerate.

TAKE PICTURES!!!

evolve or die, people!

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