Flooded With Miracles

Surging brown currents shoved my light rental car to the right. Suddenly frightened, I saw the right shoulder of the road disappear beside me, leaving a hollow, cliff-like edge under the pavement that seemed to be sucking the car off the road. "Steer upstream! Stay on the road!" I told myself. It wasn't deep water but it was fast-moving. I had driven into it confidently. Only in the middle of it did I realize the force of flash-flood danger.