Hello, George, The sun finally came out here this morning, for the first time since Wednesday, and everything was sparkling bright, all the dust having been washed off. Seems that the Alaskan storm which was to bring us about 1/4 to 1/2 inch of rain hooked up with a dying typhoon in the eastern Pacific and give us over 2" locally and about 5+ inches to the north, causing widespread power outages because of wind and the weight of all the water on the heavily leafed trees. A drought buster it was, giving us half the amount in one storm that we had all of the last "rainy" season. Ron