Over three inches of rain overnight left roads looking like leaking levees. Some gravel roads badly eroded, other places roads and their inadequate culverts created temporary sloughs. Creeks expanded to become finger lakes. A field where yesterday I watched blackbirds and Starlings forage was today a shallow like, complete with dabbling Shovelers.
This is supposed to be a grove of hazelnut saplings, many had been washed out of the ground: 
Driveway with its miniature canyon several inches deep complete with cutbanks and meanders. 
From a hilltop, a lake where there were fields yesterday along the North Yamhill River, now the North Yamhill Slough. 
Despite all the water, rainbows appeared and vanished across the afternoon skies. More rain tomorrow. 
This morning I fed our garden denizens under a sheltering roof. Siskins abounding:
With nearly every flat area turned into a vernal marsh, it was not a surprise to see dozen s of Glaucous-winged Gulls loafing on the high school playing fields in central McMinnville.
Pheasant Hill Rd. & pond, Yamhill, Oregon, US
Dec 7, 2015 3:15 PM – 3:20 PM. 8 species
Cackling Goose (Branta hutchinsii) 75
Canada Goose (Branta canadensis) 40
American Wigeon (Anas americana) 4
Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos) 30
Ring-necked Duck (Aythya collaris) 130
Pied-billed Grebe (Podilymbus podiceps) 5
American Coot (Fulica americana) 2
Common Raven (Corvus corax) X
Towheeblog 
You have my empathy. We had 5″ of rain last month. Mother Nature – or geoengineering? These unusual rain events have been happening in different parts of the country this year.
By: Marg Pratt on December 7, 2015
at 7:53 pm
Having moved north partly to escape the endless drought I cannot ever speak ill of rain, however much…just hope we humans can learn to stop building in the floodplains and at sea level along the coast…how many times will people rebuild before they get the message: move to higher ground?
By: atowhee on December 8, 2015
at 3:23 pm