According to one of our local papers, The San Francisco Chronicle, it was an October storm unlike any the Bay Area (that's where we live) has seen in almost half a century, with record smashing rainfall totals, tens of thousands of people without power, and commutes lasting hours because of hundreds of auto collisions. October 13th will be a day not easily forgotten.
The torrential rainfall was fed by remnants of the typhoon originating off the coast of Japan last week (my Dad's very good friend Doctor Brad Brough lives in Japan right now with his family and was there when the typhoon got started). The experts say if a storm like this had hit us midwinter with the ground already saturated with the winter rain, we'd have seen a whole lot more chaos.
And that's saying something cause it was chaos anyway with trees down in the roadway, the lights flickering all morning, people spinning out of control on the freeway. It's was ugly, to say the least. But to see the storm from our front door, from my perspective, it was a pleasantly wet day for an adventure in my red rainboots, boots made, designed, and fashioned for just such a spectacular display of nature's wonderful power.
And when we got to school, things still hadn't gotten any better. In fact, the main hallway was shut down because so much water had come down by 9:00 AM, flooding the walkways and parking lot, that the entire entrance was flooded! Lucky me, I had my big red rainboots on.
So that's the storm of October 2009. After it was all said and done (that day at least) we'd accumulated nearly 3.5 inches of rain. Guess it was a Big One. I look forward to many more wet, rainy days this winter!
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