Rain.. finally

In the last two days the rainstorms finally came. They are odd rainstorms however, the first one came in lasted a total of three minutes and left. An hour later we had a repeat - harsh wind and rain lasting about three minutes. This has been an off and on again thing for the last couple of days. {Can you believe I’m discussing the weather? Geesh what a bore!}

Normally this would mean very little but these little tiny miniature rain storms came in and made us initially very happy. Yeah - finally rain!  However, they stop too soon, bring too little rain and have busted up quite a few things.

The first was the power on the mountain - no one on our mountain had power for about twelve hours. (Pretty common when you live in the country. You learn to back up your files often.)

The second was the tree that fell right in between our garages. {My hubby has two “man caves” - how do you say my cup runneth over?} The wind dropped a sixteen foot tree and tore out the electricity line to the second garage.

The third was a decent sized chunk of the aluminum siding off the second garage just peeled off.

But it brought rain right? Much needed rain to a landscape all covered in brown, in a known dangerous wildfire area, but the rain was so short lived it actually just created humidity. So the water just dissipated before it really soaked into the ground. So, the landscape did not get what it needed. Instead of actually making the ground wet and helping the foliage we’ve just been sweating a lot.

And lastly, it brought lightning and thunder and it became more of a concern than a God send.

In the end it created some pretty cool sky effects that might be worthy of showing off…. So here’s some photos of the sky. Oh yeah, and as you can tell - we have a lot of work to do.

This is the sky off the front porch.

This is the sky off the back deck.

And lastly, here’s a bit of of the foliage that I was speaking about that could use a little moisture.