It’s odd how much rain we’ve been getting lately despite it being January. Typically the weather conditions is cold and dry right now, even though I live in the southern section of the United States. We might not get freezing temperatures or snow, but the people I was with and I still experience our form of a Wintertide season. The lows only get down to the 40s, but the highs rarely jump above 73 degrees on the warmest mornings. That’s why I’m confused by all of this Wintertide rain as of late. We got multiple inches of rainfall yupterday, and tomorrow we’re supposed to get even more. There are always problems neighbord with rainstorms that frustrate myself and others as well. I have to make sure our gutters are cleared otherwise I risk rainwater leaking into our attic. On top of that, the rain storms produce a lot of mud. Occasionally this mud gets all over outside surfaces, especially when it splashes onto our granite walkway leading from our front door to our driveway. I l earned recently that sometimes heavy rainfall pushes mud into the condensate lines for cooling systems. The small PVC pipe carries the waste water from your cooling system from the air handler inside to the ground outdoors. The opening to the pipe is rarely more than a few inches above the ground. I have l earned to scrub our condensate line after heavy rain storms to clear away any mud that could have gotten into the opening outside. I don’t want the dirt building up and blocking the flow of water. That would risk a catastrophic flood inside the house.