Water Fell From the Sky (Again)

Watching the storm come in from our roof.

It has been a weird, weird few days for weather.  First of all, it got super hot again for a few days (over 100).  Then, yesterday, we got rain.  Real rain, which lasted for about ten minutes and produced enough water to make us move sensitive things under cover.  Rain this time of year is very, very rare, especially this far south.  In the Delta there is rain in late December and January, but early November is very strange.  Then today, there was an honest-to-goodness storm.  We had to run to pull clothes off the lines (underwear was already starting to fly).  The wind was slamming shutters and windows.  Just as it started Janelle called from site (she and Tasha always stay until 4pm to work on pottery/epigraphy) to say that our brand-new tents were starting to come out of the ground and fly away!  Nadine and Greg ran to site to help them take them down before we lost them.

In other news, we'll be having an Obama-themed party on the roof tonight :)