It's raining, it's pouring

Today we had some of the worst rain I've seen here in a long time, maybe ever. It started a couple of hours ago, and is just now letting up. I took some photos from our backyard balcony to show you how bad it was.

Check out the rain pouring off of our roof -- yikes!

That brown stuff is the muddy "river" that starts in our neighbor's yard...

...pours into our yard...

...makes a huge lake...

...and then empties into our neighbor's yard to the right.

Amazingly, it's now about 3 hours after all of this rain began, and the backyard, while quite soggy, is not the lake I expected it to be.