Thank you for the comment, I love hearing about weather elsewhere.

More of our rains have started to be like this, so I have in fact started calling it "monsoon season."

I am used to being happy about rain for agriculture as well, it's beautiful we share that.

Nobody in America is ready for anything. Trust me, walking is mostly unheard of. We need to start organizing our lives along simpler lines--but we're not going to.