Come again some other day!
Goodness what a lot of rain we have had here over the last day! Except for the sheer amount of rain I would say I am back in Melbourne in winter. Alas, Melbourne has been missing out on rain too.
It was very dull yesterday morning. Very dull. Then in the afternoon, just when I decided to go out, it started dripping. Half an hour later, it was raining, full on. Then the great Niagara falls started - our roof has waaaaaay too much catchment for the size of the guttering and downspout. And the guttering has crud in it too. We've told the HOA but they are not fussed, they paid someone to clean it out in spring so it shouldn't be full of crud in fall..., and we aren't fixing it up cos it is two stories up and that is waaaay too long for a normal ladder, not that we have a ladder anyway.... Lightning and thunder. Oooh, a thunderstorm! Lightning flashing and thunder cracking immediately. Hmm, a thunderstorm right on top of us! Yay! Let's not go check out the creek cos it was flooding mildly. It kept raining on and off all night. I can tell cos you would think that water falling on an ashphalt roof would be quiet, but it actually sounds like whole heap of birds or small critters pattering around on it. Not as noisy as it would be on a tin roof but not quiet either.
Today's forecast is for rain showers in the morning with some extra rain showers in the afternoon. 80% chance of showers. If what I woke up to is anything to go by, we've already got 100% rain...
So it is very different but really not very exciting. It is very dull not being able to go anywhere - riding the bikes means getting horridly wet and cold. It means that we had to turn the heating on for a while yesterday and needed lights on all day long. Mebbe we moved to Seattle without noticing ;-)
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