California has four seasons: Flood, Mud, Fire, and Earthquake - you get used to it after a while.
we used to call it "landslide" instead of mud, but you've got better rhyming.
Typically in that order too. Rain causes mudslide, causes crazy plant growth, leading to fire next fall. Earthquake liberally randomly.
Have they showed the idiot in a storm drain on the TV news yet? Seems to happen with every good storm.