{"id":756,"date":"2011-08-21T15:08:48","date_gmt":"2011-08-21T22:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/?p=756"},"modified":"2022-10-05T15:16:17","modified_gmt":"2022-10-05T19:16:17","slug":"have-you-ever-seen-the-rain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/have-you-ever-seen-the-rain\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Have you ever seen the rain&#8230;&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;yes, yes Creedence Clearwater Revival, I have.<\/p>\n<p>Today as I was goofing around on the Internet I heard a gentle rain start outside. Then it got louder. And the covered windows in my room started to rattle. Still sitting at my computer I opened a bookmark to Environment Canada. &#8220;SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT&#8221;. Ok then, time to take a peek outside.<\/p>\n<p>Yikes!<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"530\" height=\"299\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pEDQAoLPnmc?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>After it calmed down a bit I reached out the door and dunked a ruler in our swamped balcony. Just over 2.5&#8243; in the middle, closer to 2.75&#8243; at the edge.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><center>            \n\t\t<div class=\"ngg-gallery-singlepic-image \" style=\"max-width: 341px\">\n\t\t\t    \t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/gallery\/random-photos\/august_rain_storm.jpg\"\n\t\t     title=\"\"\n             data-src=\"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/gallery\/random-photos\/august_rain_storm.jpg\"\n             data-thumbnail=\"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/gallery\/random-photos\/thumbs\/thumbs_august_rain_storm.jpg\"\n             data-image-id=\"939\"\n             data-title=\"august_rain_storm\"\n             data-description=\"\"\n             target='_self'\n             class=\"shutterset_68b847cb0bfef5cf0b63c99d755147a1\">\n            <img class=\"ngg-singlepic\"\n             src=\"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/gallery\/random-photos\/cache\/august_rain_storm.jpg-nggid03939-ngg0dyn-0x256x100-00f0w010c010r110f110r010t010.jpg\"\n             alt=\"august_rain_storm\"\n             title=\"august_rain_storm\"\n              width=\"341\"               \/>\n    \t<\/a>\n\t\t      <\/div>\n        <\/center>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Whatever drain tubes we have out there&#8230; I better make sure they&#8217;re not clogged. If the rain hadn&#8217;t scaled back it would have flooded our living room in about another 15 minutes&#8230; and we live on the third floor \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;yes, yes Creedence Clearwater Revival, I have. Today as I was goofing around on the Internet I heard a gentle rain start outside. Then it got louder. And the covered windows in my room started to rattle. Still sitting at <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/have-you-ever-seen-the-rain\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  &#8220;Have you ever seen the rain&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/ptY4v-cc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=756"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2855,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756\/revisions\/2855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mikekirk.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}