I miss summer!

Well, it appears that summer has finally left, and I am now left with - oh wait a minute, still blue skies and mild temperatures. What has changed here is that it has finally rained - and I don't mean a little. On Friday, September 21, we experienced a downpour the likes of which I haven't seen in years, with rain falling in sheets off the balcony roof, and a couple of inches of water running over the main streets, making driving very scary. I was coming home from The Grove after dinner with friends, while Darren was home taking pictures. You can see in the first one that the water is running in from the edge of the balcony, with part of the rug not even wet yet, even though it is pooling on the table. Good thing Darren moved the cushions of the outside chairs. It took a few days over the railing edge for the carpet to dry out. According to the weather guys, the rainfall even hit Death Valley - dropping more rain there in a couple of hours than Death Valley has otherwise received in the rest of 2007!! This followed a very dry summer, with no measurable rain in the previous 5 months. The weather guys also said this is typical of December or January weather, not September. Guess this means the winter might be a wet one. At least I don't have to shovel it!!!!