The Gully Washer
Gully Washer was my father’s term for the abrupt, heavy rainstorm that immediately forces small streams to overflow and for temporary streams to suddenly appear in every crevice running downhill. We had one late in the evening recently; severe enough that I was eager to inspect its aftereffects on my morning walk in the woods the next day. It was also severe enough to make the morning news – the Bridgeville Fire Department had to a rescue a motorist stuck in two feet of water on Baldwin Street. Sure enough there was evidence of a massive over-wash where the path…