This is a video of the rain-chain next to our front door this evening. We had almost four inches of rain in little over an hour here. Wish we could have sent some of it to California, as a half-inch would have been more than enough for us.
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Raining so hard here today and lately that it’s difficult even to drive .
Jeepers, Craig – maybe even JFC, i.e., Jesus Fried Chicken™! We’re already ca. 1.75″ shy of our meager avg. annual 9.4″ of rainfall in GJ – and this is the alleged “monsoon season” out here . . .
Our rain gauge (which has a six-inch capacity) overflowed yesterday. I haven’t bothered to empty it…
Where does that water go? Down the street, into dedicated drains or into the foul water system? Then where? Confess I don’t know which watershed Ashville is in – Ohio down to the Gulf, or a river I won’t know into the Atlantic?