Soggy Sponge

Yo. I know...I suck for not posting on my blog for 3 weeks now. Sorry all! Considering Seattle has had 27 (yes 27) consecutive days of rain, I should be posting every day.

The talk around town is about the rain. All about the rain. Apparently it if rains for 7 more days, we will break the 1953 record of 33 straight days of rain. Woo fucking hoo. Is this really a reason to celebrate? I mean who REALLY wants to set this record? Houses are sliding off the slopes, basements are flooding, Seattleites are whiter than usual and everything is wet. I can't even tell the difference between the ground and a sponge anymore. To put it in to perspective for all of you that think it "always rains in Seattle"...since January 1st, we have had 6.72" of rain. An average year brings us 2.38" and last year only brought us 0.36". So, not only has it been raining...it's been pouring. I think our sponge is full people. Please wring us out. No more rain. But thanks to people like Katie, Matt and Al, setting records of any kind is fun. They are actually even more fun if they involve destruction by nature. So, we are off. Only 7 days to go.

And just when you were getting excited. It's 3:30 and no rain yet today. BUT, since I have no idea what happened from midnight until about 8:00 this morning, we could still be on track. Guess I have to watch the Today Show tomorrow morning to find out.

Fortunately the big win for the Seahawks yesterday has taken some of the local focus off the weather and put it on football. Of course it rained the entire game........who puts an open roof on a stadium in Seattle anyway?