So here’s the way it is

In the town where I live, we nor­mal­ly get about 70mm (almost 3″) of rain in the month of June. This June, accord­ing to Envi­ron­ment Cana­da, we got 280mm (about 11″), no lie. So the ground’s already freakin’ saturated.

Last night, in a lit­tle more than two hours, we got (you sit­ting down?) anoth­er 71.2mm. So in, say, 150 min­utes, we got thir­ty days’ worth of pre­cip­i­ta­tion. Flood city. Appar­ent­ly there were cars in the Wal*Mart lot that were win­dows-deep in water at one point. Peo­ple kayak­ing down 34^th Street. Seriously.

So it’s lit­tle sur­prise that I have water in my base­ment again.

At least my street has a fair­ly notice­able slope, so there was­n’t any kind of accu­mu­la­tion try­ing to sweep my car away. But still.

Pic­tures tomor­row. Honest.

(Bored? Sor­ry. I’m a Cana­di­an. That means I talk about the weath­er. Inces­sant­ly. Eh.)