With only 12 inches of average annual rainfall, Boise can have some problems handling the occasional torrential downpour. This is a photo of Front Street taken from our parking lot this afternoon. We had so much rain in the foothills in such a short time that the water blew a manhole cover off the storm drain and we had a “fountain” 3-feet high in the middle of street, which created the scene above. Note the white Subaru in the distance which stalled out while pretending it was a speedboat!