When you look at the actual amount of precipitation, we're not doing that badly

So, a lot of you outside of New England are seeing pretty scary-looking photos of the floods around here.

And we've had a lot of rain -- ten inches, twelve, in one area, eighteen -- in an area of the country that tends to get forty-six inches PER YEAR. In the past week, we've had a quarter of the rain we'd get in a year.

But the damage, while expensive and FUCKING annoying, isn't catastrophic.
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