Raincharm’s Weblog

We live in Seattle and are used to rain. Usually the slow drip, drip, drizzle of a grey winter. But there are occasional very hard rains. I have learned while playing soccer that is never good to ask whether it could rain any harder.

Yesterday we had several hours of steady rain, punctuated by a few periods of dryness (during which we were in a power outage) and then some torrential downpours. I was admiring the hardest of these downpours, until I realized that two members of my family had just left in a car and were driving in the downpour. It turns out they were stuck in a bit of a traffic jam at the time, watching a river form in the road – but safer than 70 mph on the freeway.

They were on their way to a Tigers game – which went off amidst light rain or nothing. The Tigers were winning 6-1 or 6-2 in the top of the 9th inning with 2 outs. And then – there was a home run, a bloop single, a wild pitch, a pitching change and a HUGE downpour. (I am not sure of the order, just that my two were soaked when they got back to the house and many things were laid out to dry.)

Today looks much drier, and we are headed out to the Volunteer state.

Thanks to all that put up with us put us up in Michigan, it was great to see all of you.

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