Downpour! A @USATODAY team spent more than a year looking at the impacts of extreme rain across the country, analyzing more than 100 years of records gathered from NOAA, Iowa State University’s mesonet and @Climatologist49. One thing became very clear. usatoday.com/in-depth/news/… Whether it’s a teen rescued from her home during a tropical storm, a tribal chairman battling wastewater spills in Puget Sound or a dress shop owner scrambling to salvage bridal gowns from a Detroit flood, millions of Americans are increasingly under siege from heavy rains. 2/

Our lives are in this crazy, hugely stressful spiral right now, but all you can do is laugh. The hubs is supposed to wear this fancy cardiac monitor for 30 days. It came last week, but we didn't start it up right away. We were just distracted 1/ We are in the midst of a kitchen remodel to repair water damage that happened last summer and fa in the middle of more afib worries and trips to Mayo. So, we have no sink and no countertops and cabinets were just put in last week 2/

A friend's Facebook comment last night: "We’ve honest to God got to unite as journalists to halt this continued push toward having non-answering PIO’s doing all the answering for our elected officials and high ranking bureaucrats" #Florida #journalism #MakeThemTalk Just this week a news release went out about 300 dead turtles along the St. Johns River system, the FWC scientists weren't made available and the UF scientists studying the turtles couldn't be made available either