For many years, on one of our local television stations, we had a meteorologist, Hilton Kaderli, from Oklahoma. Never understood/learned how he ended up in Hartford, Connecticut, but I've watched The Wizard of Oz often enough to respect high winds.
Whenever we had heavy rain, and I do mean heavy rain, he'd call it what he told us it was called in Oklahoma, a gullywhumper. I always appreciated expanding my vocabulary.
Yesterday, we made up all of our rainfall deficit for this year and maybe some more.
Sdeah reiht edih dna nur yeht. Semoc niar eht fi.
-ynnek llib
