TS Andrea

Tropical Storm Andrea has finally moved on after dropping over 5" of rain in 3 hours.  I don't know the total that we received as the rain gauge is only 5" and its more than full. It started raining last night and was very heavy most of the day.  There's several inches of water under the house which we've pumped out.  We keep hearing of global warming in the media and I've been reluctant to get on the bandwagon but I'm beginning to think there may be something to it.  I've lived in the house for over 50 years and we've only had water under it in the last few years or so.  The first time was with Hurricane Floyd in 1999, Hurricane Irene in 2011, the 100 year flood in 2012 and now just a tropical storm gets us.  Oddly, we live on the highest point on our block and only our next door neighbor has this problem.  Even the neighbors at the lowest point stay dry.
And its still too cloudy for a rainbow but.....

I snapped this beauty a couple of weeks ago after a thunderstorm.  Isn't it gorgeous?

Always a reminder there if we just look.