Yes, it rained a lot last night

You can see the copper top on our pond gauge in the photo above (lower right corner) and below.
That's a solar-powered cap that shines a steady light at night for the minnows. Not sure if it still works now.

Under water.

We slept right through it, but the rain fell hard last night, leaving at least an inch and a half in our part of the world. We don't actually know how many inches fell in our back yard, because gauge custodian Tom Story hasn't reported in. And sometimes he forgets to dump it out after the last rain, so then we get these really big impossible numbers.
But a trusted web site says an inch and a half and we will go with that.
The pond rose about six inches, we think, taking the drainage from the neighborhood, and inundating the copper top on the post we installed to help us with calculations. (See photo)
The result is a nice green world for us. . . sorry, California.