Storm aftermath

Total over three days: 8.5 inches.

The creek is not running on our land.  It has some puddles in it, obviously dirty floodwater puddles.  So 8.5 inches produced a flash-flood pulse of water, but no real flow.  This was also true of creeks crossed on the way home Sunday--signs of the flash floods, but no current in them.   Creekbeds here need to be wet to hold water, and the springs that feed them are probably still short of water...8.5 inches of rain (or even the 10 or 12 inches that some...