Water Wings

always happens it seems

you wish for rain

and then it appears and you are glad to see it

but after a while you’ve had enough and you wish

like anything for the sun to break through

and the ground to dry

and the rain keeps falling

and swelling the rivers in the the ditches

creating water wings on every passing car and truck

We are at “near” record rainfall levels, and may in fact set true records for flooding in the next few days.  Over 7 inches of rain in Olympia since Friday over 10 inches in that time in Shelton.  We live in between.  So we have had enough.  Unfortunately, it isn’t cold enough to fall as snow in the mountains.  Hence the record flooding possibility.  And this means that, while the roads and all are really clean again…  we will need lots more rain to make up the snowpack we depend on to feed all our aquifers through our long dry summers.