always happens it seems<\/p>\n
you wish for rain<\/p>\n
and then it appears and you are glad to see it<\/p>\n
but after a while you’ve had enough and you wish<\/p>\n
like anything for the sun to break through<\/p>\n
and the ground to dry<\/p>\n
and the rain keeps falling<\/p>\n
and swelling the rivers in the the ditches<\/p>\n
creating water wings on every passing car and truck<\/p>\n
We are at “near” record rainfall levels, and may in fact set true records for flooding in the next few days.\u00a0 Over 7 inches of rain<\/em> in Olympia since Friday over 10 inches in that time in Shelton.\u00a0 We live in between.\u00a0 So we have had enough.\u00a0 Unfortunately, it isn’t cold enough to fall as snow in the mountains.\u00a0 Hence the record flooding possibility.\u00a0 And this means that, while the roads and all are really clean again…\u00a0 we will need lots more rain to make up the snowpack we depend on to feed all our aquifers through our long dry summers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" always happens it seems you wish for rain and then it appears and you are glad to see it but after a while you’ve had enough and you wish like anything for the sun to break through and the ground to dry and the rain keeps falling and swelling the rivers in the the ditches […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thestidhams.com\/kathleen\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thestidhams.com\/kathleen\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thestidhams.com\/kathleen\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestidhams.com\/kathleen\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestidhams.com\/kathleen\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thestidhams.com\/kathleen\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thestidhams.com\/kathleen\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestidhams.com\/kathleen\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thestidhams.com\/kathleen\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}