A Hard Rain

The last rain we got was a third of an inch on August 1, and the month has been so dry since. Lots of clouds rolling in and storms all around almost every day, but no rain for over three weeks.

So I went out and watered last night even though big threatening clouds surrounded us and, as usual, the mountains were getting rain but none down here in the basin.

And then right after I came in it rained. Hard.

A real downpour that flooded the kitchen and totaled an inch and a half overnight.

I mopped the kitchen and turned the irrigation off.

1½ inches from one big storm is very rare here. This summer's monsoon season has been an intermittently wet one. Lots of rain, but not spread out consistently. Since May we've had 8.5 inches of rain, the most ever since we moved here.