Holy Rain!

We have got more than half a year's worth of rain in 4 days! You out of state people might think, pffft, 3-4 inches is nothin'! But where we live, this is unheard of! It's not supposed to rain this much in the desert in such a short period of time. And if it does, it means flooding. Massive flooding! All of our neighborhood parks and green belts are now lakes. The kids say they go to school on an island! It's going to take weeks to dry all this water up!

This is our main park that I would guess is now a 2 foot deep lake complete with real ducks!

This lake usually has a side walk down the middle of it. I couldn't believe the kids who were trying to ride their bikes around it! I bet they were a little wet and in a little trouble when they got home!

This is the school. The drop off line this morning was about 3 blocks long in each direction! There wasn't even any crossing guards out! I think every kid either rode the bus or got dropped off! Imagine 800 kids' parents, in the pouring rain, where it nobody knows how to drive in it, trying to drop off their kids! What a mess!

DVB liked looking for the ducks in our new lakes!

I'm sure you are all laughing at us wimps with all this rain! It really is a big deal around here. And we are not even close to having any damage like the poor people just an hour north of us who got 5-8 inches of rain! Now that's a mess! Not to mention the several feet of snow the mountains got!

But looking at the bright side, Spring is going to be beautiful! I better make a doctor appointment to get that allergy medicine refilled!