The sky was cloudy but it wasn’t raining when I went to pick up the paper this morning, but by the time I went out for a walk after my Toastmasters meeting, the rain was back.

The rain stopped again in the early afternoon; I took advantage of it to go take another picture of the water in Ross Creek. It’s about as high as it was last night, but it seemed a lot less threatening in the daylight!

I’m continuing to work on my resolutions, especially “Watch More TV”. Tonight, we started watching Valley of the Boom – 20 minutes was enough to decide that we could reclaim the disk space we’d used to record the series.

It’s been raining all day, as predicted. The rain was pretty light this morning; Diane and I took our usual Wednesday morning walk and came back just wet enough to warrant hanging our coats in the bathtub instead of the closet. And that’s how it was until about 5pm.

Then the winds picked up and the rain got a lot louder – I could hear it hitting the fireplace damper. I even turned on the local TV news to get information – they successfully filled 20 minutes with five minutes’ worth of news, which made me feel better about turning it off again.

A few minutes ago, my friend Sam passed along an alert from Valley Water saying that Ross Creek (which is just behind our house) had reached “flood monitoring stage” a couple of miles downstream and asked how it was here, so we went out and looked.

The water appears to be four or five feet below the edge of the bank, so we should be fine as long as nothing dams up the flow.

Valley Water’s Surface Water Data Portal shows that the creek level has dropped more than a foot at the gauge half a mile upstream from us and nearly two feet at the downstream gauge in the 90 minutes since the alert was issued, which is also comforting.

Let’s hope….