We just got quite the deluge too: It didn’t last 2 hours, but, I think the intensity may have made up for it. Holey Carp...
The backside of the MCS (system) is rotating through now - maybe we’ll get another 1/4” or so, more slowly, which would be good, as even several times that much is of limited benefit* if it mostly runs off of dry soils.
*OTOH, I did get my rainwater storage filled very quickly! I really do need to get that expanded...
I could seriously use another FOUR rain barrels, but Beau isn’t too keen on it, as the only place we have a gutter on the metal roof is the one across the porch that flows into a 35 gallon rain barrel. Which he barely tolerates. I mean a half-dozen junker cars in the yard? Yeah, that’s just FINE, but a useful and beautiful barrel full of rainwater? NOT so fine, I guess! ;)
I wouldn’t mind a few situated out in the garden, but I’d need to make darn sure they don’t end up as mosquito breeding havens. That would push him over the EDGE, LOL! (A little cooking oil on top takes care of that problem, or those mosquito dunks.)
Rainwater is mystical stuff full of nitrogen and MAGIC! It’s as if this Biosphere we live on was Divinely Designed just for us! ;)
“Every time it rains it rains, pennies from Heaven!”