Dunno how much press this-all is getting elsewhere, but it's a pretty big deal in more than just my County. Verbal descriptions are so often dry, but -

Total of 7.0" Fri + Sat (5" from 7pm-6am today.) Barometer at 29.4, amidst.
Peak of de Nile came ~ daybreak (could hear freight train all night. then: video with the sound! right about at its zenith. Boffo!) After an hour's nap, had to go see, soon as I could see. Hmmm - there just may be a use for one of those million candlepower thingies, but I wasn't sure I Wanted to know if the soundscape was because it was so-CLOSE? .. or just LOTS of 'it'.

Saw:
Rapids ~ 2/3 of the way from top of normal vee creek bank, to a big walnut tree near house. Instead of a modest creek, surface ~15' down from bank, it was a torrent filling the cut and at least 3x the normal bank-bank width.

Clearly aces out the earlier event. A fitting marker for a year of soggy bafflegab and wet-nosed fuck-ups.
Seems best to love the Cosmic Humor; too damp to light that proverbial candle, anyway.

Then a bit later .. rain just stopped. Like a cel-fone er, cell. Pumps could about match the percolation rate from various strata. Windows open / fans on, yada. But since it'll be Baaack, no point in swabbing the deck and rearranging the doilies.

Peanutbutter, near-resident miniature horse came by next, with her "staff"/owner - seems that her pad had about 6' of water in it, so neighbor had to do some late-night improvising, too. Earth(men) Abides the megaton-hours of Kinetic Energy! One more time.

Tomorrow, folks a few miles North (Russian River, Guerneville area) are due for 14' over flood stage, coinciding with high tide - so I have no complaints. A couple of line-voltage dips in the night; the rhythm of clearing an overload: you count 1 ... 2 ... and hope not for 3, because then the sucker stays OFF until the load drain is fixed. So do your pumps. Lucky, lucky.


May your year-end events all be ... vicarious.


(Snow is probably more fun)