While they must have been wondering earlier if they would ever get out in a boat, I had been in my room watching the rain bucketing down while constantly checking my phone.

BBC: The darker side of sunny Gambia

Kathy had grown up in Baton Rouge and was used to the hurricane routine: the litany of preparations, the waiting and watching, the power outages, the candles and flashlights and buckets catching rain.

CNN: Excerpt: The calm before Katrina

In Minnesota on Monday, people were watching the ice there melt, a steady rain helping the process, Tetrault said.

CNN: 'Ice tsunamis' sweep into homes

"I spent most of Sunday in the Olympic stadium watching a goodly chunk of our 15, 000 volunteer cast heroically rehearsing in the rain, " he told the assembled media.

CNN: British weather posing Olympics challenge, admits Coe

The luxurious new Black Rock Oceanfront Resort is a curving sweep of glass, steel, and wood beside the rain forest and above a surge channel that boasts the best storm-watching in the West.

CNN: 10 dazzling hideaways by the sea

What we're watching: The NLCS might continue tonight, in case of rain there is always House on Fox.

ENGADGET: HDTV Listings for October 17, 2006 HD