Michigan weather

I have lived in Michigan for a little over a year now and I must say, it never lacks for interesting weather. Who would ever think that a weather system (Hurricane Ike) that started its life off the coast of Africa would eventually end up passing through our little city of Albion. Naturally, it was the remnants of Ike which is now a tropical depression that came through, but it was still part of the same system that made landfall twice in Cuba then came roaring onshore again at Galveston, Tx. We have had some other little tropical system going on Friday and then Saturday and today, Ike joined forces with that and proceeded to dump 6 1/2 inches of rain yesterday and I'm sure much more than that today. It has actually been raining constantly since Friday morning--just light stuff on Friday and Friday night and heavier yesterday (obviously, since we got 6 1/2 inches) and today it came down in buckets and torrents. Today was our Linger Longer Sunday (pot luck lunch after the meetings) and when we came out, everything was awash and raining so hard, you could hardly see the cars in the parking lot. Naturally, I was umbrella-less, (something I plan to remedy very shortly) so I'm sure I made quite a stunning sight sprinting across the parking lot to the car with a plastic grocery bag over my head (it works great--you should try it some time if you're caught without an umbrella and just happen to have a grocery bag with you. After we got home, Kayleigh wore it into the house and it looked just as stylish on her.)
The rain, finally, is down to a light drizzle--now the winds have picked up and we're under a high wind advisary until 2 a.m. tomorrow morning with wind gusts of about 45 mph out of the north so there goes our nice warm tropical system--temps tomorrow are only going to be in the low sixties. But fortunately, the mid seventies will return in time for our Festival of the Forks celebration on Friday and Saturday. Taylor will be in the parade as part of the band, so we will try and get pictures of him and all the other sights of the festivities.
I'm very proud of the Michigan roads around here as they have stood up to all this rain without flooding at all (can't say that for Texas--they get a fraction of an inch and have to close roads everywhere. For some reason, the rain there just doesn't seem to sink into the soil and just runs off and floods everything). Anyway, with all this rain, we got off fairly lightly--some water in the basement (mostly the laundry room) and one instance of the power going off for a little while here in the house; not sure why, but something got wet and overloaded a circuit), now as long as we survive the winds tonight, everything will be great! As I said, the weather here is never boring!!!