Anyone know where Noah is? I need to borrow his arc….

So, it appears that the rain has finally stopped. The rain started on Friday last week sometime and we had non-stop rain until Wednesday. I think that we had about 8 or so inches of rain around here, although I’m not really sure because we didn’t really put out anything to measure it. Behind our house, there is a dip/trench that runs between the properties and on down to the storm drain. The problem lies in the fact that since not all the properties have sod in the backyards since they’re not yet finished, there’s all sorts of junk that gets washed downhill to clog the drain. When that happens, it overflows, of course. Two of our neighbors however, are in the path of the water that overflows. Every time, the water would flow over the edge of the basin, down the hill, around and between our two neighbors houses out to the front and into the road…which is how the landscapers planned it. It just sucks since they end up having a river flowing through their backyards. We were lucky in that respect. The water just drains off of our backyard. Btw... our house is the first on the right. This picture is taken from our friends' house.

I heard the other day that the Philadelphia area, where we used to live, has just had the worst flooding that they’ve had in 15 years. Apparently, the Skuylkill river that runs right through Philadelphia was 15 feet over flood stage the other day as well. Too bad I can’t send some rain on home to Arizona where they are currently experiencing a terrible drought (what’s new though?). Hopefully their monsoons will start up soon and not fizzle out like in years past (knock on wood). It’s weird how fickle the weather can be. One area that has plenty of rain keeps on getting more and another that doesn’t ever get any, never gets enough. Oddly enough, I think that we got near as much rain in under a week that Tucson gets in a whole year...which I've learned is about 11 inches. In the drought map up above, Tucson is in the red area in Arizona. Ugh!