You can send some of that rain our way, if you'd like. While it's rained some in the Portland area in the past month or so...we haven't had a single drop at our house. Our rain barrels are bone dry. The cistern is way lower than it should be at the end of June.

Honestly, this whole 'rainy PNW' thing is a farce. It snowed like mad this winter ('it doesn't snow here') and it hasn't seriously rained since sometime in April ('it rains steady, November through June'). What is going on???