Wow, rain.

So, my apartment flooded yesterday. I wish that was an April Fool’s joke, but sadly, no. It’s not bad, tons of people have it a lot worse than I do, but it was a fun, lengthy cleanup job regardless.

Oahu has passed the biblical milestone of 40 days and nights of daily rain at this point, and yesterday morning was the worst I’ve seen yet. The sun is out right now, which I’m hoping means the weather is changing, but supposedly there’s more on the way.

How bad did we get it yesterday morning? Pretty bad. Here’s a fun little anecdote: Galveston’s wife has friends visiting from Japan at the moment. They’re on a ten-day trip, and they leave Sunday - weather report says it’s clearing up on Monday - having seen nothing but torrential rain for most of their stay. Yesterday they wanted to go shopping since there’s nothing else to do when it’s like this, and Ala Moana (the big mall, for non-locals) was out because it’s an open structure. So they went to Kahala Mall. Oops.

http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2006/Mar/31/br/br11p.html

And then there’s the 48 million gallons of untreated sewage that spilled into the Ala Wai canal and went straight into the ocean, the Honolulu Zoo closed along with most of the golf courses, and a bunch of people’s homes got flooded and mudded.

The forecast says we’re going to get thundershowers today, more showers tomorrow and a side order of showers Monday morning just for good measure. Sweet.