I’m starting to feel like Noah. The National Weather Service tells me this:

A half-inch of rain is a lot! The NWS has a collection of videos that give you a feeling for different rates of rainfall. Take a look.

Our little burg has its own funny little climate. But if I had to say what the climate is closest to I would say “high desert.” We get rain and snow, but only intermittently. The rain lets up in May and doesn’t return until November. Except for summer thundershowers, of course. The snow comes in December and quits in April. We average about foot of snow and about two feet of rain per year. It’s hot and very dry in the summer and it’s cold and dry in the winter.

But at this moment I’m in the midst of a deluge. It’s a biblical amount of rain, man. The snow is being washed away here in town but it is still clinging stubbornly to the hillsides.

We need the water, naturally. Well, we need the snowpack, to be precise. So let’s hope it is cold enough in the high places for this stuff to pile up. All I see out my window is runoff. And puddles. And my rain gutters clogged with melting snow!

Stay dry, my friends.