My neighbor, Kaley, lied to me. In a huge way. She didn't do it on purpose, but still, she lied. Last year around the time school started I asked her if we needed to get rain boots. We walk to school and I knew that rainy days would be tough if we walked and the kids' feet got wet and then they had to wear those wet shoes all day. She told me that we did not need to get rain boots because it never rains here. Really? Never? Well, occasionally, but not much. She said we sort of live in the desert, which I don't know if I agree with or not, but she's a smart lady and has lived here her whole life so I felt the need to believe her.
Anyway, everything that Kaley has told me about the weather over the last year has been wrong. Even she admits it. I don't know if it is as much Kaley being wrong or the weather just taking a really weird turn since we've moved here. The last two summers have been atypical for Colorado, this one being that there has been a crazy amount of rain.
In some ways, the weather here is like Miami. Yes, Florida. In Miami there are certain times of the year where it rains everyday. Only for about 30 minutes, but everyday it rains so that the clouds can release some of the humidity in the air. Denver is kind of like that, but it's not due to humidity. Every afternoon the winds blow down from the mountains and it starts to get cloudy and looks like it's going to rain. Apparently it used to rain everyday, but last summer it just looked like it was going to rain everyday but never did. This year that rain is back.
In the spring at the end of the school year, especially during the last two weeks of school, it rained a lot, and several times there was lightening. The school didn't have a inclement weather plan in place because it rarely happened, but for some reason there was lightening during pick-up like four times in a two week period. The school was in mass chaos, at least as far as their walkers were considered, which we are. My neighbor, Brittan, told me that a couple of the teachers let the kids out when the bell rang and then yelled to them, "run home as fast as you can so you don't get hit by lightening and die." I'm not sure that's exactly what was said, but the liability of it all is probably why they implemented and inclement weather plan for this school year.
We had to give permission for up to three other people to pick up our kids, because if they can't find you they don't want your kids there forever after school. We also have to pick the kids up in the gym and sign them out from their teacher. Once they are signed out and in our possession the school could care less if we get home okay, they just don't want it to be their fault. They even have a red flag they raise with a big white lightening strike on it to let you know when it is an inclement weather day and you have to sign your kid out. It's kind of hilarious.
On a not so funny note that goes along with three days of rain in a city where it doesn't rain is that one of the windows in the front of our house is leaking. It's not leaking because there is something wrong with the window but more because there is something wrong with the roof over the porch and water is leaking down the walls and ceiling and then down the window. We saw this problem once about a month after we moved in but we couldn't pinpoint it and had no idea where the water was coming from. Now we do. I took pictures, Charlie took video and we have an insurance appraiser coming on Monday. Yuck. However, it could be tons worse as some of the people in our neighborhood had flooding in their basement and have to deal with that.
All this being said, the sun came out for a little bit today and boy when it does this place is gorgeous. You kind of forget how annoyed you are with the rain because the sky is so blue and the sun feels so good. I just hope it stays that way.
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