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Whenever there's anything more than light rain on the horizon, some of our news channels announce a STORMWATCH!, graphic included. I'm sure the meteorologists get all excited anytime there's a weather shift towards storm. Since we are on the coast, the weather patterns often shift. Very quickly. This means that forecasts aren't always accurate and the meteorologists still keep their jobs. Lucky! As far as a storm, it's usually just heavy rain. Nothing too severe coming from the sky, although it can wreak havoc on some of our hills, causing sliding. Well, at the end of last weekend they announced STORMWATCH to begin on Tuesday and that it was going to be a big one. I opened the drapes and front door to mild skies. Nothing seemed to say rain at all. Until around 1:30p. I was talking w/my mom & brother on speaker phone and he yelled, rain! Then my mom chimed in yelling, it's pouring! and they jumped off the phone. See, we get really excited about rain here. To their credit, they were moving things around a storage unit and items were outside, but yeah, lots of excitement about rain.

Before the RAIN!, UPS brought a J Crew box to me. Inside were the Sperry slip ons. Perfect timing. We never have rain in June, so I felt odd ordering them a week ago. However, I've wanted a pair of Donald Duck yellow booties for a year now and figured the price was right w/the addtl 30% off.

Sperry Top-Sider® Cormorant rubber slip-ons (36293, $98) runs in whole sizes. The color choices are olive tree, vintage linen, mango and lemon twist. Now $59.99 online.

Size 8 - I wear 7.5 and usually take an 8 when shoes run in whole sizes. I was wondering if I needed a 7 given that Sperry sometimes runs one size small. I'm very, very happy w/the 8. I promptly wore them out in the RAIN and got them dirty right away.