I Heard What...?

The Rain Gods finally woke up!  At Condominiums Pilitas #204 the first Rains of the 2013 Summer Season occurred @ 12:50 AM on June 21, 2013 (Sorry Charlie…lol).  I had just turned off my Kindle and sat down in my office to review last minute emails from my “spam fans”, when I realized I smelled an odor of “fresh wet soil.”  Then I heard Dolores voice, from her office, saying “what’s making that strange noise outside”?

Realizing the Rain Gods had finally blessed us with rain, I rushed outside to the front veranda, sat in my reading chair and watched the rain drops dent the water in the swimming pool just below.  We´ve had several light rain´s since until this last Tuesday at 5:30 PM when the season’s first “gully washer” arrived, accompanied with thunder and flashing lightning over the Bay.  The dry river bed just to our west finally had water flowing from the hillsides into the Bay.  The local niño´s had a great time playing soccer in the partially flooded street, trying to kick the ball as it floated and bobbed in different directions.

Those of you in the PNW would probably consider us crazy; however, the first cooling rains are a wonderful experience in the tropics and everyone makes it an exciting moment.  Of course as the newness finally wears off it does become much less exhilarating, however a relaxing mid-day rest on the veranda coupled with a quick jump into the pool under an overcast sky with the temperature hovering around 84F still has it over the alternative from where I sit - sunshine and 90+ degrees.

What Are The Rain Gods Thinking: Redux

Here we in June with the rainy season rapidly approaching.  The blue skies are showing gray and the view of the bay is becoming more obscured.  As you all are aware from one of my earlier blogs, “What are the Rain Gods Thinking”, I´d already confirmed my brother-in-laws status as a seer when he proclaimed to me one evening while we watched the sun set over a couple of tequilas (possibly better stated “while the sun set as we watched over a couple of…you get the point) that the rainy season begins on June 14^th at 4:00PM, and from my in-resident studies I´ve found that to be accurate at least, approximately, 75% of the time.

Having established that as a local Legend (ref: wikipedia.org/wiki/Legend, “A majority of legends operate within the realm of uncertainty, never being entirely believed by the participants, but also never being resolutely doubted.”) I ask once more What are the Rain Gods Thinking?

FACT:

 

Sunday June 2, 2013 at 5:45PM (approximately since the clock backup battery failed during the resultant power outage) the initial rains of the season began at Calle Pilitas #204, Condominiums 204.  This was actually very welcome by all the neighbors who brought chairs into the street and watched and conversed about the happening, then,

 Monday June 3, 2013 at 6:00PM, the same thing repeated itself, causing 6 power outages. I finally gave up resetting the electronic clocks, then,

Tuesday June4, 2013 at 6:30PM, another repeat, causing the end of the local street soccer pickup game, and the sighting of unfurled umbrellas.

Since all this deposited less that .0125” of precipitation in the area the buzz is that the “real” rains won´t really begin until June 14^th at 4:00PM… Más o menos