Record rainfall this April

Or not.  According to the Dispatch, Columbus will need about an inch more rain in the coming week to break the record, 7.08 inches, which was set when Grover Cleveland was beginning his second term in the White House in 1893. But it's the wettest since we've lived in our condo (bought in 2001), because we've discovered a spring under the street in front of our house which never bothered us before.  Even on dry days, we drive on wet pavement.

Our condo complex is surrounded on 3 sides (if an oval has a side) by a creek.  We've just had hardwood floors installed on our lower level -- so I hope this isn't the first year since 1977 that the creek rises to meet the houses.  Flooding urban creeks often happen because thing clog up the drains further down stream--like furniture, lawn clippings, logs, etc.  I've seen it happen even in areas that aren't near open water.

It was a lot of work, and very expensive.  Rain, rain, go away.