Cold , clear creek water hitchhiked from Alabama , caught a thunderstorm just the other side of Anniston .. It rode into Palmetto at the stroke of midnight , jumped off a wall cloud and hit the ground running ! Straight down Main Street taking everything it could carry .. Pine straw , old newspapers , bubble gum wrappers ! Oak leaves , bottle caps and fast food napkins ! The storm came and went , city life returned to normalΒ Β , a hundred gallons of well travelled transpired water now has it's eyes set on the city of Savannah .. It'll bide it's time in the heat of Palmetto , laying in a storm sewer waiting to be called skyward ... A one way ticket on the 'Evaporation Express' , riding within an eastbound thunderstorm , dropping in on another little city to clean and cool the street , meet at the bottom of a hill to start the journey all over again ..
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