When it hits close to home

Last September, in my home far from home, 1 it poured outside our window. We had never seen it rain like that the entire time since we moved to W, a whole year and a half before. As we watched, stuck indoors on a weekend, videos of familiar places submerged in floodwaters and read the news of the devastation in neighbouring states and countries, it turned out that rain of this sort was not a usual…