Rain Out

In the previous thread, Above Average asked me how I was handling the rain and I figured I’d do it as an post.

Last night was the wildest one yet...

Around 3AM I woke up to the sound of what seemed like a tank coming down my block. An incredibly loud roar off in the distance getting closer and closer. A couple of minutes later the lightning struck. The sound I heard before was literal "Rolling Thunder".  According to the paper the city was hit with over FIVE HUNDRED lightning strikes.

FIVE HUNDRED STRIKES -  so in that, it was like watching the Yankees face the Astros.

After the barrage, the rain came down... Not in drops. Not even in sheets... 

All the rain came down at once. The best way to describe it is - It was like being in your car during a car wash when they turn on all the jets to clean off all the soap.  That whooooosh.

Then, twenty minutes later, it was over. We haven’t had any rain to speak of today but my understanding is that it will rain again overnight.

I live around one hundred yards from the Sacramento River and I went up on the levy to check it out.  The Army Corps of Engineers had been working on it a lot over the last year or so because, after New Orleans, Sacramento was the largest urban area with the greatest flood danger.

The levy looked good but the beaches and woods that line the river were gone. The water went right up to the berm. If I was going to try to hit a golf ball across the water normally I would use a nine iron now it’s at least a seven.

Overall, we’re fine. Our side fence is down.  Had an 18 foot tree branch break off a Redwood and fly 80 feet in the air and land on our roof but it was pretty thin and there was no damage. 

Lot of crushed cars in midtown. 

The water levels are still reasonably below flood level. Thing is, it’s supposed to rain every day until a week from Thursday.  

That said, I keep thinking about the old Bill Cosby line from his bit about Noah “How long can you tread water? Ha... Ha… Ha...”