Thanks Seadog!
I don't know where in CA you are but, just a bit ago, we had one HUGE thunder/hail storm! We, for once, didn't lose power either! I was totally shocked!
...LOL... We had no thunder or hail, but possibly what Potlatch’s friends in Texas might refer to as a gully-washer. Sky opened up.
Pretty unusual for us, but the rain was coming down so hard it was overflowing the gutters on all sides of the house, and water rushing down the mountain, across and over the street, apparently ignoring the culverts.
I got what appears to be a few yards of new dirt in my front yard, in just a few minutes, courtesy of the neighbor’s orchard, across the street. ...I may agree to give it back to him this coming summer, if he wants it...LOL