Another period of heavy rain last night awakened me. The storm has been with us for three days now: low clouds so dark we’ve had to turn on the lights in the middle of the day; periods of heavy, even torrential rain followed by longer periods of no rain at all. Yesterday we saw the sun for a few minutes in the afternoon, but then the low clouds closed in again.

The weather service reports only five and a half inches total for this storm in New Bedford. It feels like we got more than that. It feels like it’s been raining for too long without a real break. But then I hear the reports of flooded streets and houses in Middlesex and Essex counties, where they’ve received twice as much rain as we have; at least it’s not that bad here. But it’s not the rain that’s wearing on me so much as the gloom.