Rain Rain Go Away!

Well the unthinkable is happening in our town, FLOODING! DUN DUN DUN!!! Actually, it isn't completely unthinkable just incredibly inconvenient. It took me an hour to get home last night, or this morning rather, from a friend's which is only one mile away. Weather in our area is mild to say the least, and wardrobe changes from season to season consist of trading in flip-flops for converse. It's snowed once in the past 18 years and it's crazy weird if it get above 100 degrees. Yes we are spoiled, and completely unaccustomed to nature "disasters"....? Anyway, it wouldn't be so bad if I wasn't stranded at home with nothing to do. My parents went to Oregon to visit family and work was cancelled because the parking lot is flooded. I have to start cleaning for a New Years eve party all of this just sort of makes life more interesting! Well heres hoping that all of you are staying dry or, if you're not, at least enjoying every moment of being hopelessly soaked.

For your reading pleasure and overal enlightenment here are some facts about rain:

+There are three general types of rain: orographic, frontal and convective.

+Rainfall intensity can be ‘light’, ‘moderate’, or ‘heavy’. Heavy rain falls at a rate greater than four millimetres per hour.

+Roughly speaking, one inch of rain falling over an area of one acre, has a weight of one ton.