We are two dogs richer, now, in that
'Nother comic read, yesterday, was Battlefields: Happy Valley #2 of 3, about Australian aviators flying bombers over Germany in WWII; not bad...
I've had two umbrellas destroyed in this series of storms over SoCal; the second one exploded on me in a gust of wind yesterday afternoon. Luckily, we still have one or two umbrellas left to us from ... well, whenever. All of them must be at least ten years old. Plenty of microbursts have come raging through, lasting several minutes, but there's been constant rain as well. We're probably well over 4 inches here, which may rival, or exceed, all the rain of last year combined.