Today I am grateful for rain. Four inches of it fell in the last two days. It's wet and it's cold and unfortunately there is the usually flooding happening.
But this is what makes the pacific northwest so beautiful and green in the summer. It helps keep our air clean. It builds the snow pack in the mountains so we can go skiing and have fresh water to drink in the summer. It helps me appreciate it when the sun shines... Which won't be for another 7 months here... but that's ok.