Monday, May 15, 2006

Big Numbers

Storm totals are estimated as high as 11 inches in places. Many places are reporting more than seven inches, and the precipitation hasn't stopped yet. Schools are closed or opening late. Roads are closed.

This is rain, posting numbers like snow. But snow doesn't turn roads into raging rapids. It doesn't scour out beneath them so they collapse.

Right around home it just looks exciting. The real damage is elsewhere. It's just weird that this happened in October and it's happening again in May, with long dry stretches in between.

Those wood ducks came house-hunting in our dry woods a few days before this storm. Now our intermittent streams flow at full strength. Throw that into the pot of legends about animals predicting the weather. I wonder if any wood duck nests have been washed out by this deluge.

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