Wet, wetter, wettest

We have nothing to complain about here. Other places in New Zealand have had or will have up to 1,000 mm of rain in 24 hours. This morning I heard a weather man talking on National Radio (while driving to work). He called the current weather a rain river. Apparently this has arisen from the tropics where moisture has been taken up in such quantity that it comes down rather more like a river than rain. On the way home, a reporter for National Radio was in a carpark in Nelson, and ended her report abruptly before the rising water from a nearby river overflowed into her gumboots.

For us, the wooden deck out the back is wet (on bare feet); the bricks are wetter due to pooling; and the grass is wettest as a result of so much rain for four months now making the area soggy