The Ultimate Downpour

When I showed up for ultimate frisbee tonight around 8 PM it was already raining steadily, but it was warm out so it felt pretty good. I joined the game, and after about 10 or 15 minutes it started raining pretty hard. I wasn't sure whether we would keep playing but we did. Then after another 10 minutes or so the real monsoon showed up and we got a torrential downpour. I literally couldn't see the other players.

We were playing at a park in Tempe, and the field acted somewhat like a retention basin. By the time the rain eased up we were playing in somewhere between 12 and 18 inches of water. But we kept on playing. It felt like I was playing with ankle weights on, but it was actually a lot of fun diving and sliding around in the muck.

 The photos were taken toward the end of the game, long after the rain died down and some of the water drained off. That's me in bright yellow.