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.