Tropical Storms

I am smack dab in the middle of my first tropical storm...the waves are high, the wind is blowing and the roads are covered in standing water. "When it rains, it pours" definitely came from here! I think I drove through the equivalent of 8 lakes to get to work this morning. This is similar to the flooding that happened in Napa and Marin Counties back in 2005 when I was living in Petaluma. I flew back from MN just before New Years and the freeways were shut down and completely submerged in water...sometimes snow just isn't THAT bad!