As the art directors scrambled to address last-minute requests and the copywriters (including yours truly) banged away on final, final versions of those blessed sentences no one supposedly reads anymore, it started raining hard as hell with thunder and lightning, a major rarity in Northern California.

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It has been raining hard and that is clearly hampering the police in their work.

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While he was in the rain, while it was raining so hard and the wind was blowing, he was praying that God will calm the water, calm the wind, so that he will be able to make it somewhere with his kids.

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"It was five degrees outside and raining so hard that everywhere was flooded, " he says quietly.

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