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WET

We are anticipating our third of four rain storms to arrive here this afternoon. The heaviest storm, they predict.

It is raining very hard on the other side and just now beginning to drizzle on our side of the mountain.

The storms have more than enough force, lift and moisture to break through our rain shadow.

Booker and I have taken our walks early each day. A good decision. The first day we only half made it at the regular time.

One interesting thing about this series of fronts is that they follow roughly the same time frame. They get here about 4 pm and are over before we go to bed.

But today may be different. Longer. Wetter.

One more tomorrow and then some after showers for Friday. Then we are to be done with it for now.

Our pool is rather full. I may have to set up a siphon with a hose to carry it out.

I think that my neighbor may be doing that with his already.

It isn't hard to do. I put the hose over the inlet with the pump on and it just forces the water into the hose. Then gravity takes over.

The pool is above the grade of the drive just outside the wall.

There is flooding in the city. We have no real drainage. We use the streets to channel the water into the "washes" and then out to a long fan of such dry channels until it goes into the ground.

They system is built for a hundred year storm and more but it still takes awhile for the water to get off the streets and into the channels.

We have nothing like the problems on the other side where there are mudslides. We have nothing but bedrock on the mountains.

In the flat, we can have an onrush of water that will overturn cars if there is a cloudburst in the desert but right now it is mostly going where it supposed to go. Eventually. All the flooding is around those channels.

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