The Furious Spinner

Remember I said yesterday that it was really, really, really, really raining? Well, I wasn't exaggerating. The weather people said a few days ago we were going to get maybe an inch while Seattle would get about six. Hah! I kept thinking, "Man, they must measure rain differently. This has got to be more than an inch." Turns out we got five inches in our county yesterday. Before this storm, we had about 50 inches of rain for the year. So we got a tenth of our rain in one day. Already today, we've had almost two and it's only 8:30 a.m. Interesting. I'm staying indoors today and working on Church of the Old Mermaid stuff (and later watching the teevee and having people over), so the rain is kind of nice, but thus far I don't have to worry about flooding. The Seattle area is pretty much drowned. Bad weather is usually good times for the Repulsicans at the polls. Mario said, "Why? Are the Dems too lazy to get up and go vote if it's raining? 'We want to keep Bush from trashing the Constitution but it's too wet.'" (He said this last part with a whine.) I really don't know why—and I've got to eat breakfast, so maybe I'll check later.

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Ever hear of the Pineapple Express? It's when warm, moist air from Hawaii hits cold artic air over the Pacific Northwest. So you've been getting what hit us about a week ago. 14 inches of rain in Maunawili (about 5 miles from us). A landslide at one end of the Pali Tunnel bottled up Honolulu bound traffic from the windward side. This on the heels of a 6.7 earthquake on the Big Island. Lovely.

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