Flood

I was supposed to go to the ladies Bible study this morning and then spend a lovely afternoon browsing books at Barnes and Noble. Instead I'm here at home, having spent a most of the day bailing water out of our flooded back porch. It has been raining from the time I got up at 8:30, with about an hour break from 11:30-12:30, then it started again. The whole backyard is flooded and water is still trickling in to our back porch. This despite the fact that we live on the mountain. I'm scared to think what it's like in low-lying areas. From the news coverage I've seen it's not pretty. Starting to feel a little like Noah in the Old Testament- when will this rain end? And how I am going to get to work? This is not supposed to happen in the desert.