I always wanted to be able to capture and show a picture of what we call the "Sideways Rain."
This looks more like "Diagonal Rain" but it is the best that I can do right now.
I will continue to try to get the kind that is very obviously a horizontal onslaught.
Now that it is nearly dark, the massive gusts are making dramatic sheeting across the stormfront windows.

This sideways rain actually called me today.
I had the camera around my neck, ready for the next gust,
while cooking up some stroganoff,
dashing to a window at the sound of every big gust.
It wasn't working.
There was too much water running down the windowpanes
and I couldn't get a focus beyond.
The Stroganoff came to a boil and I turned it down to simmer
and returned to the computer to get online.
The computer said "line busy."
I checked the phone nearby and couldn't hear anything.
I went into the other room and listened to that phone.
There was a sound like typing and a faint sound like breathing.
I thought maybe someone had called me and my phone hadn't rung
and they set down the phone and forgot to hang it up.
I listened while I sampled the stroganoff.
It seemed that the breathing sound got louder every time there was a gust.
And the sounds of typing seemed to match the pattern of the raindrops on the windowsill.

Then I realized that the vantage point that I needed
to get the photo that I wanted was right there beyond that sliding glass window.
Duh.
It had to call me and tell me where to look!

It was a good location, too, that I was called to,
featuring a tree that had blown over in a brutal sideways storm of a former winter.