Storm 5

Well, my babbling brook turned into a fast stream emptying into a full-fledged river. No one here will argue with me if I said we got 60 mph winds and a good 5 inches of rain over about 10 hours. I've seen thunderstorms this bad, but they were much shorter-lived.

At times the rain stopped and it only took a few minutes for the wind to dry things out. But then, a few minutes later the rains would come again.

I knew I was going to run low on battery power so I spent the entire storm in conserve mode, everything turned off but my radio. There simply wasn't any sun to charge my batteries. Now that it's passed, I figure it will take me a day or so of good sun before I get charged up again. Those last two batteries I added for convenience are part of the problem now as it's much harder to charge 6 batteries than 4, especially when it's overcast.

No damage to speak of, and the forecast is for much better weather for a couple of days. Then it starts again...