Entries this day: Downpour

Downpour

12:18am CST Monday 6 November 2000

It's raining like I've never seen it rain before (since we've lived here). The rain is all at 45 degree angle and blowing toward the southeast. Relatively very little lightning. This surprised me most. I haven't heard it thunder once during this otherwise torrential display.

As I've written, (it's 12:24am), the intensity of raindrops has varied between "drenching downpour" to "might as well be swimming." Right now it's only a drenching downpour.

12:27 am

Right now one might as well be swimming.

I take it back. I have seen it rain this hard while living here. Remember some months ago when I walked through an astonishing deluge of rain and lightning? The rain now is like the rain then, but this time there has only been about 3 lightning flashes in this whole 10 minutes.

It's back to a downpour again. I'm going back to bed and shall write more if I am again inspired. (But isn't that always when I write?)

12:34 am

Just as I stood up, I found another indicator of the rain's intensity. The river of water on each side of the street covers a third of the steet's width, leaving only a single lane worth of pavement wet, and not flooded.

The drenching downpour has been downgraded to just raining.

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