Rain, Rain, Go Away

Actually today is sunny and beautiful; but this week we have had days of record rainfall.  We had mid-west type thunderstorms in a typically dry climate.  The rain woke us up in the night and drew us to the windows during the day.  Since most of the rain we get is light and spread out over longer periods of time this was a newsworthy event.

 Here are a few photos from a midday storm on Wednesday. 

  Our street was flooded, up over the sidewalks.  Two hours later the street was dry.

 




at this point there were
dark clouds, sunshine,
rain and hail....all at once

 

rain pouring 

over the gutters

rain and hail mixed

looking out the
front door, happy
that I didn't have to

go anywhere that day