OK - This may come to nothing but it's way too early

[Hortensis]

17. Thanks. Malaise! My husband was just down there replacing

boards lost from our dock in a storm last year. Every big tropical storm these days seems to mean flooding up over the lawn onto the lower patio, which is about 3 feet above the top of the old cinderblock "sea wall" that lines our portion of the canal. I confess I enjoy them when we're down there, though, with sheets of rain gusting horizontally. Back in Los Angeles, except for a few Santa Ana wind storms, extreme weather was pretty rare and most often involved cloudless skies and shimmering heat from temps well over 100.