On Monday we had a storm with high winds and downpours. The wind nearly knocked our power out several times, and it did knock out the cable system, leaving us without Internet and home phone for the entire night. But, I am grateful, because no trees or tree parts fell on us, we did not lose power, and though the rain fell heavily enough to form a pond in the back yard, it didn’t reach flood level. Plus, with our Netflix out of commission, I convinced my husband to finally move a disk-player into my office so that I could have my annual pre-Christmas viewing of Die Hard.
As if that weren’t enough good news, on Tuesday I found that the Sometimes Stream had started flowing again for the first time in many months. Welcome back, water!
The latest drought map was published today. I checked it, because we’ve gotten a lot of rain lately, and I was hoping that our drought status had changed. I’m happy to report that it has. We are now rated “Abnormally Dry,” which is the lowest drought level and a big change from two months ago, when we were in the “Extreme Drought” category. That is very good news!