After 144 consecutive dry days, the drought has finally given way. Early in the morning, the rain awoke me, or the power outage caused by it did, in any case, I was up early to hear the rain coming down in buckets. By the time I snapped this picture the rain had let up a bit. Though not as heavy, it has not stopped raining since the wee hours. It’s snowing up north and raining down south; oh, how nice it is to have a weekend of winter.