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Hey, guess what, it rained yesterday. A lot. Now for most of you, a thoroughly justified so what? will be in order. But this is the desert, and it doesn't rain here.

So, when that wet stuff falls from the sky, it's a little out of the ordinary. It makes the evening news. People talk about it. People look out their windows and stare at it. For someone from England, this makes me giggle. It's just rain.

But when the heavens open here in Arizona, they open. The ground is so dry that it can't soak it up quickly enough. So we have little mini floods and newly created water polo fields where none previously existed.