When I awoke at 4:30am, just a short while ago, it wasn't raining and the sky even appeared to be brightening (wishful delusion). Now, after having packed my tent, sleeping bag, foam bed roll, and other gear, buckets of water are firing down and forming networks of canals and estuaries in the asphalt parking lot. Before, the sky electrically lit up and was followed by an unsettling grumbly boom. This harsh weather isn't for riding a bicycle or any other transport in. I will stay here until next the hardest of rain subsides.