LOL Webgogi.....I remember those Kansas storms. My grandparents lived in Topeka & my mother & I always went back there every summer to spend with them. They moved there when I was 5 & that was my first experience with Kansas storms......they had an apartment on the back corner of the huge apartment complex so they had windows on the back & on the side. The storm warning went off in the middle of the night & we looked out the window to see the rain parallel to the ground & blowing so hard.....had to go outside to get to the basement area for the tenants....I remember seeing the trash cans floating in their underground containers. For a 5 year old little kid, it was frightening.

Wind was something we continually lived with on the desert in Ca but it was hot & dry, not with a storm & rain....big difference...eat dirt not rain.

I'll take this rainy weather any day......considering Ca is now in the worst drought they have ever been in & will be out of water in 12 months unless they figure out some solution like desalinization as they have the whole long coast line to draw from.....lol while we get dumped on with snow & rain.