It looks like both places that we like living have had record rainfalls this past weekend. I say "weekend"today (Monday) because it was a long weekend here in Hong Kong. Yet another one, which was sort of nice, but you can't have a Dragon Boat Festival without a day off of work.
Milwaukee had record rain over the weekend with 4.4 inches falling at the airport and 7 inches in some other areas (at least according to JSOnline). Sounds like there was lots of flooding and probably some sub pumps that stopped working and a few people who got water in their basements.
While we're not trying to trump people in Milwaukee, I think we take the cake on rainfall this weekend. We had a "black rain" warning for half of the day on Saturday and we couldn't see across the street for a few hours. In our neighborhood, we had 15.75 inches of rain in about a 12 hour period on Saturday with crazy amounts of flooding and landslides. Sadly, there were 2 people killed in a landslide here. They were Chinese immigrants living in huts on the side of a hill. There are even villages here without electricity and water because of the landslides.
In addition to streets and parking stuctures, Chris's office also flooded on Saturday. He had to go in to work (not that uncommon for a holiday weekend) so I went with to do some shopping and work on my computer so that we could sort of hang out for the day. When we got to his office, the window was leaking and all of the papers on the console next to the window were completely soaked. A bit of a mess. Good thing he had to go in to work afterall.
Thankfully things cleared up for Sunday and the Dragon Boat Festival. We watched a few race but it was so hot and packed that we spent most of the day having a late lunch and drinking beers outside.
Today was Sex & the City movie and dinner with some friends. All in all a nice and relaxing weekend not totally rained out.
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