Our long winter is suddenly now turning into a long wet spring....although we can't complain too much because the area has been drought stricken for years.....the constant rain is getting to be a little ridiculous. We got home on Monday and it has again been raining ever since.
May ended up not only breaking the record for the wettest May ever but also the record for the wettest month overall on record. According to our National Weather Service we had 9.71 inches of rain breaking the previous record in May of 9.21 inches set in 1962 and 9.66 inches for the wettest month ever recorded in 1905.
Although this is just a picture out our front door - it hardly does justice to what is going on around us - many communities are being evacuated. Streets are impassable currently in Rapid City and thankfully we don't live anywhere near any streams because they all seem to be flooding at the moment. E and I were commenting yesterday that we are seeing water run in creek beds and streams that have been bone dry since we moved here 4 years ago. If the rain doesn't stop soon we are going to need something more than a lawn mower to cut our grass down.
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