Yr. online correspondent was sheltered from Rainstorm 2007 Monday, mostly. I was called back to King County Elections, to tabulate recount votes on a single obscure race for a suburban public-hospital commission.

Of course, I had to get from my place to the bus, and from the bus to the Temporary Elections Annex on Boeing Field property. As I stood and strode amid the heavy precip and the solid gray skies, I though to myself that this was the sort of day that separated us true Nor’Westers from the SoCal weather wimps.

There was one TV in the coat-check room, emanating continuing reports of nature’s sodden fury. But I didn’t hear the full extent of the spectacle until I could get home and get online.