I’d been complaining about the lack of rain at our house recently, while the rest of the state, it seemed, was getting their fair share. Well, yesterday we got our fair share. 1.65 inches of rain according to my weather station, and wind gusts of 50 mph.
That’s not too bad, you say? Well, my next-door neighbor might disagree:
“Only” 50 miles an hour is still enough to drive the rain completely sideways, and fell a top-heavy, poorly rooted tree. And the puddles left behind after more than an inch and a half of rain are enough to delight a toddler for quite some time, as you can see in one of the pictures above…
This happened with winds of “only” 50 mph; we had 110+ mph winds several times back in 2004 and 2005 (Frances, Jeanne, Katrina, Rita, Wilma). The 2011 hurricane season is fast approaching (technically, a month of it has already gone by, but “June—too soon”); now that we’re in July, I think I’m going to head outside this weekend and batten down the hatches!