What started as a few drops soon turned into a steady downpour. Cold sheets of rain soaked through their clothes, leaving every person soaked and shivering. People started to whine, “We should stop! We should look for shelter! There’s an old gas station ahead, we could stop there, and wait it out!” They had to shout to be heard over the rain, but even then the wind blew their suggestions away.
“No stopping!” Seth yelled out when it seemed that Laura had no energy to raise her voice. “There’s no waiting this one out!”
Even the horses were hunched and miserable under their loads. The water ran off their coats in rivulets and their hooves sloshed through the water that was running down the road. Within an hour all of the ditches at the sides of the roads were full to overflowing, t
