Good idea, bad idea.

[reynardo]

You pick up your husband from the station, and the rainclouds gathering are doing things like having rotating wall clouds, and almost black sections, and greenish light that means no good.

Good idea: Once home, you put the picnic rugs over the car because there's going to be some nasty weather and you don't want the car to get hail damage.

Bad idea: Holding those blankets down by shutting their edges in the car doors.

And why is that a bad idea?

Because when the rain buckets down in an almost-horizontal fasion, the water hits the blanket and then makes its way through the fabric.

And drips down...

Inside the car...

Puddling on the floor under the front passenger seat. An inch of water. Just sitting there.

Not to mention water on the seats, front and back.

Dammit.

So I've sopped up as much as I can, and removed the car mats, and now the car is sitting with a fan heater inside it and two windows open an inch to let out the damp air, and I'm hoping I can get that dried before it starts smelling.

Dammit.