> > > It rained like crazy a few minutes ago. The sun was shining brightly, but it just kept pouring rain. After a while, the sun won, but I didn't see a rainbow. I guess the trees were in the way.
> > >
> > > My wife was over in the garden, about 200 feet from the house. She made it back in record time.
> > > Howard
> >
> > "Devil's birthday" is an old name for those days where it's rainy and sunny at the same time. It never seemed impressive in Oregon, where that sort of thing happens all the time because it never stops raining. But in this part of Texas, I've only seen it once, and it was incredible. The rain was so heavy that I could only see a few yards, but the sun was beating down painfully.
> >
> > Ga"drenched and sunburnt"be
>
> Florida is like that. Back in 1950, I stood on our front porch and watched it rain like crazy on the other side of the highway. That was about 100 feet away. Our side of the road had sun popping in and out for about ten minutes before the rain moved across.
> Howard


I grew up in Tucson. It happened alot during the monsoon, or storm season. The time I remember best was when a storm cloud passed along our street, pouring rain for about 30 yards. All us kids ran in the rain to keep up with the cloud. We had to run really fast.