Rain, rain, rain

For the fourth or fifth day in a row it rained off and on during the day and night. Once you get over the seasonal reactive disorder, the real problem with the inordinate amount of rain, which filled up the drains and flooded the streets and basements, mostly in west and north Atlanta. Down here, its wet but not that wet. The streets and the yards seem to soak up the rainfall relatively quickly, once the sun comes out. Which doesn't help when it seems to soak all over again every night.

I think we have had the equivalent of a hurricane at this point. I know a lot of people are sweeping water out of their basements today and a lot of schools are closing tomorrow. Some were closed early today.

Meanwhile, we got word today that they got first snow in Colorado. It is hot and sunny in California. Hot and sunny. Really hot and sunny. Somebody told me it was ironic that this amount of rain comes twenty years after Hurricane Hugo wreaked havoc on Charleston and the low country. Fortunately, those old colonial and antebellum and victorian buildings stand up pretty good after all the years. Charleston and Savannah do quite well.

Of course, they don't get it so directly like Mississippi and Louisiana got it from Katrina and Rita. It is a wild world. Thanks, Cat.