Too much of a good thing?
The National Weather Service reports an inch and a half (!) of precip’ at the Sunport yesterday. Downtown got flooded overnight, the power went out, the full Noah.
We knew it was bucketing down — the rain was coming in sideways as we hit the sack last night — but we weren’t expecting anything quite so biblical. Before bedtime I added an extra tiedown to our new(ish) ornamental plum, which got blown down the last time we had Shakespearean winds blasting through the back yard.
Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! rage! blow!
Our highly unreliable weather widget reports a mere half inch of free water from Tláloc, but we’ll take it. I got up at stupid-thirty to double-check that I’d shut off the irrigation system. If the power croaked here we slept right through it.
So did the Journal. It’s one hell of a note when an old ink-stained wretch is compelled to rely upon the local TV stations for the 411 on the tempest.
Mad Blog Media 
Glad to hear all is well, and watered, at Rancho Perro Loco!
Jeez Louise, is it ever. Downtown took a pounding, sounds like. The John Laws shut it down. Rough night to be homeless.
You folks get anything out of this system? Looks like we might have three more days of rain up here.
Meanwhile, the Journal has refreshed its homepage. New lede story? “18 places to visit and restaurants to eat at in and near Downtown ABQ.” Jesus wept, etc.
We got 1/2 inch, and the neighbors say quite the storm blew up around 2330. We slept right through it. We went to have our coffee on the patio and rug was wet. The forecast us for more today, and the Colorado river toads are singing their mating song.
Excellent. I don’t hear any Duck! City toads singing in Spanish, but the crickets are chirping merrily.
We have mushrooms growing every place where there is the skinniest sliver of shade. Dark skies keeps telling us there’s a 0.00% chance of rain until five minutes before it actually starts raining, and then somehow it jumps up to 50%. Apple has a dozen software engineers, same number of graphic designers, server-side technicians, and HAL9000 Working on the weather, but the only one actually contributing is the intern who looks out the window every 30 minutes
You have the ’shrooms too? Little beggars look like hobbits lost in the jungle of our newish turf. Too bad they’re not the fun kind. I’d go all like Smaug on they ass.
Well, when you get stormy you see a mushroom.
He shoots, he scores!
Thanks for that. You owe me a bottle of bleach to replace the one I cleaned my eyes with after that mental image.
For your early morning chuckle, I just copied this from the AP website:
“1963
The first Tour de France begins”
https://apnews.com/today-in-history
Perhaps if I delve deeper into their accuracy I’ll find that the russians are gearing up to launch Sputnik into orbit sometime next week.
Oy. Looks like they fixed it. Meanwhile, for your Great Moments in Irony collection, 70 years after the Tour debuted the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration was established.