Outside / still going Forecast: it will stop eventually

SOAKED CAT

I left the house dry. I want that on the record, because nobody who has seen me since believes it.

Buy X Dex
Soaked Cat

Hold the umbrella over me and see how far you get.

0%DRY
Move your pointer inside the box
Soaked
Dry and enormous
DRIEST YOU HAVE GOT ME 0% TIMES YOU LET GO 0
01
Ten minutes from the door

The sky waited until I was exactly halfway.

Not near the house. Not near where I was going. Halfway, where both directions cost the same and neither one helps. I stood there working out the maths and got wetter while I did it.

Halfway
02
The shelter

I found a roof. The roof had one hole.

Out of the whole shelter, one gap in the panel, and it lined itself up with the back of my neck. I moved twice. It found me both times. At that point it stops being weather and becomes a conversation.

Under the leaking shelter
03
Six hours later

Dry, I am four times bigger. Nobody warns you.

Wet, I am a wet stick. Dry, I take up an armchair. Same animal. The difference is entirely air, and the air takes its time getting back in.

Dry and enormous

Getting through it takes two things.

A wall to stand againstAny wall. It does not have to help. It has to be there, and it has to be dry on one side.
The decision to stop caringThere is a point where more water changes nothing. Everything after that point is free.

Five stages, and I have been through all of them today.

Measured from the inside
SpottedONE DROP / DENIAL
DampWALKING FASTER
SoakedWALKING NORMALLY AGAIN
Through to the skinNO LONGER RUSHING
Beyond the reach of weatherPEACE
Weather logKept badly, in pencil
StartedTen minutes after I left
UmbrellaAt home, dry, doing nothing
Distance to any roofAlways the same
Referencesoon
Still out here. It has eased off slightly, which means nothing.