Do you still live close by? I vaguely remember learning the sounds of a new place. After 16 years, I know the sounds around here pretty well.

The only thing that has changed is the whine of the dog. He's had some ear issues that have impaired his hearing so I can enjoy the storms guilt-free as they no longer send him into a panting panic. This one, he slept right through!

If I ever do move to the Pacific Northwest as I want to, I'm going to miss these frenetic storms. I understand that though they get rain, they rarely get thunderstorms.

Yeah, they don't seem to get the wild weather we get.

And yeah, we only moved a couple of miles. ;-)

Yay! Nicer digs, I hope. I'm glad I ended up keeping the house rather than moving. If I can't afford (secure) Montrose housing, this is the next best place to live. Especially since I got the dog, who loves his private yard.

Oddly enough, it's a touch smaller, but much more well designed.

Better yet, though, it's *cheaper*. :-) And we're closer to my kid's friends as well as to her bus stop.

Sounds like they're nicer to me! Less money, better layout, better location. Sounds like a win all around. Congrats!

Thanks!

I object! We don't get the same kind of wild weather.

What kind of wild weather *do* you get?

Squalls. And ... uhm ... yeah. Rain-induced mass flooding.

In the spring it is quite common to have rain, sun, sleet, hail, sun, rain, sun, sleet, rain and sun all on the same day, not necessarily in that order but definitely in that frequency. ;)

Sleet is a rarity for us. But rain to the point of flooding is a fact of life around here.

You'd think some people who'd lived here for any length of time would know to pull into an elevated parking lot and wait out the flooding. Not fun at all but better than a flooded car.

Really.

With you on the flooding. The designed this city for the streets to flood as a way of protecting the houses and businesses. Yet we have so many new residents and plain old unobservant old ones that when it's raining hard, lots of motorists fail to pull into an elevated parking lot to wait it out, with the inevitable footage of flooded cars.

It's sort of a rite of passage to send the newest/youngest/most gullible tv reporter out into the flood to remind people not to get out in flood waters because not only does it drive out the snakes (we have water moccasins, a particularly venomous and aggressive species) but the fire ants ball up as a floating raft and will swarm anything solid they hit.

Happily, we rarely have sleet.