Yesterday morning we had a heavy thunderstorm pass over the area at school time so I drove my son to school. An even heavier storm rolled over the top of us starting at about 1am--the kind that feels more like an artillery bombardment, with rapid-fire lightning, continual thunder, and heavy rain. The kind of storm that has you wandering carefully into the yard the next morning to see what fell over, broke, or got knocked down.

Yesterday morning's storm tipped over (gently) a large tomato plant that I was able to reposition with no harm done. The veggies survived last night's storm, but the creek rose over the bridge and dropped debris and mud in the street at the bottom of the hill. The yard will be way-too muddy for mowing for a couple of days at least and it will be a longer wait for any more digging.

Later I'll walk out back and see how the trees are doing. A couple of years ago one of mine dropped a very large limb in the neighbor's shade garden, and barely missed taking out their garden shed. They have a tree that is most potentially a fence or shed-breaker at the far back part of the yard, it's a huge and rotted hackberry.

Let's hope these storms pace themselves. Problem with rain in this climate is that most of it comes all in a few days and runs off before it can be useful. Seattle doesn't get much more rain than North Texas, it just gets it in a gentle form and paced out to get the optimum watering use out of it.

SRS