Weather Report

Holy Shit! It really knows how to rain down here. I'm in my 7th decade of life (as I was reminded by someone lately) and I've never seen rain like this. Of course being a northern fella I use the the rain- to-snow formula and try to calculate how much snow this would be up north. For example, yesterday it rained 8" in Marathon (35 miles north of here). My calculator tells me that's the equivalent of 5 1/2 feet of snow if the temperature was 50 degrees cooler. Wow! Instead the radio guy says that owing to the fact that Hurricane Paula is stretching across Cuba now (90 miles to the south), I should climb my coconut tree and cut down the coconuts so they won't fall on me, my car, or little children. I'm leaving them there and hope they conk out a few geckos when Paula strikes. Reminds me of a Paula I knew, but that's a long story for another time.