Beatrice

Tropical Storm Beatrice hit our town full force today. It started raining, and by raining I mean sheets and sheets of rain, a little after 8:00 and kept raining all day. It finally ended sometime in the night after we had turned in. We watched our complex pool fill with rainwater as the day progressed. It went from two tiles below the lip to overflowing in less than 10 hours. The ground was saturated and water was running everywhere. For those of us who grew up in the dessert of Eastern Washington, this was quite an experience! Beatrice achieved hurricane status by early evening, but it did little to change the amount of rain falling on our little patch of paradise.