For weeks after I got down here from Michigan, July of 2018, it would rain EVERY afternoon. That’s the same pattern we’re in right now.

Today started with rain in the morning before I was out of bed and it’s going to start up again later this afternoon. When it rains in Florida, it’s not like Michigan. It comes down by the bucketfull.

I say that but recently Michigan was hit with heavy rain totals and consequently two dams were compromised (in Sanford and in Edenville) and the whole area flooded. The two lakes formed by the backwaters of the dams have drained. Businesses have been wiped out. The Sanford house I bought in about 1963 is probably underwater. Midland, where I grew up and went to school is flooded, and M-46 which I took to go to work from Shields to St. Mary’s is impassible. It’s all really sad.

The area may never recover, and Michigan has been one of the hardest hit states with the Covid-19 virus. How much can people take?

But back to my complaint about “the rainy season.” Hopefully the pattern will move on but for now, we’re having showers or rains most afternoons.