For those of you who don’t live in California, I wish I could accurately describe what the torrential rains are like here now. At times is sounds like someone took the garden hose with the trigger sprayer and is aiming at the windows full-blast. Every window. All at once. My yards (front and back) are so saturated they’re just giant puddles and all the bark in my flower beds and walkways has floated away. Yesterday it hailed and rained at the same time and when the kids and I looked out the windows we couldn’t see anything, because the rain was coming down so hard and fast the windows were just covered in a curtain of water.
Now I love rain, especially when I’m nice and cozy indoors. With my hot cup of coffee and my story open, I’m finally getting in the mood to write. (I’m wondering if holding onto Story #2 was holding me back mentally.) And California has been in a drought for decades so this is all good. Except for the peoples whose homes are sliding down hills or getting buried by hills or getting flooded out or having their phone lines go dead–like mine 
. It’s predicted to rain until Wednesday morning. And we haven’t hit our rainy season yet. 
Which is usually all of February and part of March.
My hometown was only four inches from the official cutoff for rainforests this year! 56 inches of rain! People who live in the midwest really don’t unserstand what RAIN is. Their thunderstorms have less than half the sheer density as REAL rain. *g* Their “severe weather” sirens used to crack me up because they clearly don’t know what severe weather really is!
Where I’m living now, we’ve gotten soooo much more rain than we have in years, but because of the low levels in the reservoirs still, we’re still officially in drought. It will take years of rain to end that, sadly. I’m keeping my fingers crossed that the next five years or so will be wet ones!
on January 11th, 2005 at 1:02 pm