When It Rains, It Pours... Literally

In the month that Alex and I have lived in Minnesota we have seen some crazy weather. It seems this year that everyone is having abnormal weather, so Minnesota is not alone but, it's by far the oddest weather we have experienced. We have had about 6 weather advisory warnings while living here. They usually include the line "These storms can be violent, stay away from all windows". For some reason we don't find comfort in these warnings. Flash floods are also very common. In Utah, it seemed, that if we had a heavy rain storm it was all the talk.

A few weeks ago Alex had a day off so we decided to run some errands and luckily we went in the morning because about noon is started to rain and then it started to pour. Lucky for us we live on the top of a little hill so everything runs down. We did have some water damage in the basement but nobody seems to concerned about it so we aren't either.

In just a few hours this is what the field behind our backyard looked like...

This picture doesn't do it justice but those little trees sticking out of the top are around 6 to 7 feet tall.

That evening we went to dinner and a movie and we drove past our neighborhood park (This city thrives off parks. There are more parks here then churches in the south). This is just a quick shot we took of the park.

People in our neighborhood said it's not uncommon for this whole field to be under water after a storm. Also, after a good storm here the sky is always magnificent!

Apparently, Rochester is use to this kind of weather and has a really good draining system. The next morning at about 8 o'clock, I woke up and found the field to look like this.

Last week we have offered to watch some of our friends kids so they could go out and a few minutes before we left to drive there it started raining. The 15 min drive to their house and this is what the streets looked like when we got there.

Although the weather is crazy, we love it here. Rain or shine! The city is amazing and so much fun. It has the perfect feel of small city meeting big city. We have access to anything we could ever want (including really great healthcare) and we still live in a relatively small city. I don't think that either of us knew how much we would really love living here (Those who have been here for a while have told us that we might feel differently after our first winter here).