Let it rain! Let it rain! But not on July 4th

'Will this rain never end?"

Overheard someone say it Wednesday, to which I uttered my pet phrase:

"Better rain than a hurricane."

Of course, the heavy wind and rain and flooding probably has folks disagreeing with those words, especially if they're a motorist stalled out in the deluge.

I know the ducks in the semi-dry lake behind my girlfriend's house are loving this weather.

After all those weeks of drought and people saying, "We need rain!" we are getting it but good.

The National Weather Service said it should ease up by the weekend.

Which is important.

No way can we have our July 4th fireworks rained out.

That would be un-American.