In other news, it was just raining cats and dogs, and I was like “oh, better make sure the storm drains on the corner are clear, they were filling up with leaves”. So did that and looked up down the block downhill and it was turning into a goddamn lake.

So I trudged down into knee-high water with a stick blindly poking at the curb to find and clear those drains. Managed to get to them just before the water got high enough to flood the engines of the parked cars, but had to trudge back and forth for maybe 20 minutes as all the debris they flushed kept clogging them up again.

And I feel quite proud of myself.