When I woke up this morning to the now familiar deluge splattering the hatch over my head, I began to think that perhaps my perception that it has been dumping a godawful amount of rain on us lately was simply a matter of proximity... when it rains a lot and I'm in a house, I don't notice so much, since the roof is a long way away and the sounds muted even out the windows (since instead of splashing into more water it's falling softly into grass and leaves and such). Also, I didn't used to get showered on between my bedroom and the shower before. That's sure to draw your attention. Maybe it's not so bad, I thought, I'm just more exposed than before. It's probably no worse than usual, I am just not used to hearing it like this.
That was before I got up to drive to a client's office this morning. The massive lakes forming in the roads all over town were not typical. Having to run the wipers at full bore to maintain a minimal vision of the road is not par for the course. This is the third time this month already I have noticed such heavy downpour and when I checked the weather service totals just now it turns out that I'm not just imagining things; we received half the typical monthly average of rainfall for October this morning. We're already double the typical monthly average, and there is the rest of the week yet to come. Then we get into the rainiest month of the year, November. Fun.
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