Waterworld
Wow, there has been so much rain this past month of July. For comparison's sake I am going to use an image right up front here. We have Elder McAllister, an avid amateur meteorologist who put up his own "weather station" outside his apartment close by us in the Eastwood Mall. Last week, during one of the two monsoons that we went through, it showed about 18.52 inches of rain in a 7 day period. For context, the average annual rainfall for Vancouver, Washington is about 42 inches. From July 1 through July 28 there was 48 inches of rainfall in Quezon City (Metro Manila) per the Pagasa weather company (the US equivalent to the "National Weather Service"). Although, if I use this good Elder's additional post, he would say that his weather machine calculated about 30 inches. That's in just one month. The average rainfall in Metro Manila in July is just over 15 inches. It has been extremely wet this past month. This rainy weather causes lots of flooding in the ...