afternoon torrent

I don't know if it rains like this in all of Texas or just Austin, but the rain we get (generally speaking, I don't want to offend the weather-enthusiasts of the world) comes in short, dramatic downpours...or sometimes long, dramatic downpours. There's no soft, Seattle-like mist about the rain in Texas--it's go big or go home. We had another brief deluge this afternoon. It was long enough to hold the interest of the little guys for a couple minutes but short enough that it had tapered off significantly by the time they thought of going outside to play in it. There's always hope for tomorrow.