How You Gonna Make It?

Every person I know had faced at least one situation that either appeared, or actually was, beyond their capability to handle.  Many of those same people sent up one prayer after another in hopes they could avoid the situation, since they knew it would be a monster.

Nevertheless, what they wished to avoid overtook them indeed, and with an unexpected twist: there was nowhere to hide and ride it out.  Instead of asking for shelter from the storm, they were left to find shelter IN the storm, which was better suited to drowning than preserving them.

So...

The question to them, and anyone who finds themselves locked outside in the rain, is...How You Gonna Make It?