I've been stuck for 25 minutes now, I don't want to shop soaking wet, so tell me what you're up to while I wait for a break in the rain. It's absolutely pounding down and I came directly from church and was not prepared.

I've been there... Hope that it'll stop soon if it's still pouring

Should've skipped church and shopped early. Could put that 10% tithe toward actual things you need.

We got hit in the NE part of the Midwest USA a couple hours ago. It was fierce, and gave us a couple of brief power outages. (I'm very thankful there, as a local outage last summer lasted almost 24hrs)

Not exactly sure which way the storm systems are headed (East towards D.C., maybe?), but there's a chance that the president's lauded "Freedom 250" MMA event will be scrubbed.

In terms of Fediverse activity, lately I've been sorting through an old archive and discovering loads of worthy content to be posted around various communities. A particular area of concentration would be in the "Animals" community, if you dig that sort of thing: !animals@lemmy.world

Eventually I just steeled myself and got it and did my shopping soaking wet in the air conditioning and it was miserable LOL.

I do dig it! Thank you.

I finally got out of my car and shopped soaking wet and miserable. Ugh.

Go out anyway. Your skin is waterproofing enough.

That happened to me the other day, while I was waiting for my Chinese takeout order to be ready. I was stuck there with two other people waiting on their order, and a small boy who took shelter there after he got caught in the storm on his electric scooter.

I felt like I was in some kind of sitcom bottle episode

That is very sitcom like!

I hate being in an air conditioned store soaking wet was my thing, it wasn't all that warm yesterday.

I haven't used an umbrella my entire life, as rain never bothered me. May have something to do with growing up in coastal northern Norway, where sideways rain makes umbrellas useless.

I know I'm 21+ hours late, but you could have worn your reusable shopping bags as a hat and protected yourself.

There is one grocery store in my area with an underground garage. I think they get a fair amount of additional biz from having that.

Absolutely. That would be amazing.

I just have grocery buckets.

Oh yeah that would. I have a reverse opening umbrella which is so sturdy, no turning inside out in the wind or dripping.

I actually used to live really close to it. Like blocks and such that I did not have to cross a major street. After a bad snowstorm used to do the brush off the front and back and mirrors just enough to get by and go over there and do a nice long and leasurely shopping trip while waiting for the snow to melt. It was not specifically heated but completely underground and between that and bleed off from the underground entrance and exit it would not get below freezing and likely more like 40f.

Never heard of grocery buckets

Really? They are big plastic buckets with handles, rather than dragging a bunch of bags, you can fit most stuff into a bucket or two. They sell them at the grocery stores here.

You know what? I just realized there's a fantastic grocery store downtown in my city that is in the mall and has an underground garage. I don't know why I didn't think of it.