Right this minute it's coming down rapidly the way rain usually does: vertical and implacable. Of course, even if there is some accumulation now, at 5 a.m., it could easily warm up and disappear by the time a reasonable hour of the morning rolls around.
Yesterday was pleasantly mellow. Breakfast at Luna Park, then the afternoon spent playing games and hanging out with
I turned on the radio around then, and it was during the time that KUOW relays the BBC World Service. Interestingly enough, what was being broadcast was sort of an online brochure about public health, clean water and water-borne diseases (cholera, diphtheria, etc.) by Doctors Without Borders. Very informative and straightforward, and I was reminded of one of the reasons I really like the BBC - they broadcast useful things like that, and language lessons, and so forth. Yes, they have some odd shows like the one where people from all over the world write in requesting songs, resulting in the strangest mish-mash of a playlist that's even more surreal at three in the morning, but even that has its amusement value.
The best thing about the DWB piece was it was informative without sounding like a lecture, and without sounding like the authors assumed you were clueless or brain-dead. It was very clear about things like wash your hands, & use soap and ways to purify possibly contaminated water (boil it, or put it in a translucent container in the full sun for a day - the combined light/heat/UV will apparently zap most fecal-borne pathogens) but all in the context of describing the various aftereffects of disaster. A refreshing change from most of the domestic products of a purportedly similar nature I've encountered.
As an aside, if you are looking for somewhere to donate toward relief, Doctors Without Borders (as