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I\u00a0hail from one of America’s most beautiful and livable cities.<\/p>\n

Portland, Ore., is my hometown. I was born there, came of age there, was educated there, got married there, brought my two sons into this world there. It was home until 1984.<\/p>\n

I get asked all the time, “Where are you from?” I tell them, “Portland, the one in Oregon.” Almost with fail, the other person will say something like, “Oh yeah. Don’t they get a lot of rain?”<\/p>\n

I’ll say yes, but then remind them that the rain falls in dribs and drabs. “It usually rains three or four days before you really notice it,” I usually say. Haw, haw, haw!<\/p>\n

Well, yesterday it rained in my hometown. It rain a lot during the course of a 24-hour day. The old 24-hour record was .86 of an inch; yesterday it rained 3.3 inches!<\/p>\n

OK, for those of you from, say, the Gulf Coast, that’s not all that much. I recall a rainstorm in Beaumont — where we lived for 11 years before moving to Amarillo in January 1995 — that dumped 8 inches of rain in something like three hours.<\/em><\/p>\n

Three inches of rain during a 24-hour span? In Beaumont? Pfffttt!<\/em><\/p>\n

It’s a big deal, though, for my family and our many\u00a0friends in Portland.<\/p>\n

I might have to revise my stock answer, though, about my old hometown.<\/p>\n

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