News Flash: It Rained in SoCal Last Night

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This was unexpected. A big storm swept through the NorthWest yesterday. Washington and Oregon received the most rain. I’m sure there were some problems, haven’t looked at the news reports yet this morning. NorCal had lots of rain too, but not as much as up north. I heard that SoCal had a 30% chance of rain overnight. I discounted the forecast because it almost never rains here unless the prediction has over 50% chance. This morning I was surprised and pleased that everything is very wet outside. I won’t have to water most of my potted plants. There’s one spot that’s protected from rain, so I’ll water the plants there. I wonder about the hillside areas that burned months ago. Hopefully this was enough rain to get seeds to germinate. Without some vegetation taking root, there will be mudslides once we get real rain. I’m pretty confident nothing which starts to grow now will protect the hills and homes from heavy rains. But we haven’t had many big storms in the last few years. Luckily, they did have a good snow pack in the Sierras last winter to give us drinking water. What is your water situation? Do you need rain, or would it be best for the clouds to make a detour to where I live? Update: Just saw the weather forecast for tonight, rain again at 9:30 tonight, stopping at 10:30. Fingers crossed this is right.