ZOMG flash flood!

It begins:  Our program coordinator had just left for the week and our director was out on a firewood run. A new school group had arrived that day and we were scheduled to go on a night hike in like, 45 minutes.  At this point we were discussing how lame it was going to be to hike in the rain.

Please note the weird turquoise clouds and the sheet of rain speeding this way. 

Bah! Stay in your cabins kids! This is 30 minutes later after we had progressed through dime sized hail and pounding rain and gone from 'whoa this is some cool storm' to 'should we maybe be concerned about the kids?' to 'OMG TURN OFF THE ELECTRICITY ALL THE BUILDINGS ARE FLOODING!'

This river used to be our firepit and the path between the dining hall and the gathering area

Here is the rushing river pouring right through the lapidary merging with the rushing river coming down from the boys cabins, and Daniel running around herding children. 

Clean-Up!  This is one hour in, while we are still feeling accomplished and stoked on floods and flood cleanup.  by 10 o'clock when we were still shoveling trenches by the light of our headlamps, we were maybe not as cheery...

*all pictures are courtesy of Ali and not me. I wasn't ready with my camera.