We had 35 days of rain on a 3-month tour. After awhile we just got used to it. A women we were talking to told us, "this is the wettest summer since 1974 when I was pregnant with my first son."
This was one of the storms we rode in. This picture was taken at 10:00 am, and that is really how dark it got. I was digging out my raingear and the tent's ground cloth. My wife and I just stood back to back and rolled up in the groundcloth. We've used this technique before, and it keeps you relatively warm and dry. The main storm didn't last too long, but it was intense.
The results of that storm.
This was the first time we wrapped up in the ground cloth. This southern Idaho storm was producing a lot of lightning and we were the tallest things around and riding metal bikes. We left the bikes on the roadside, went down the roadbank, and waited for the storm to pass over.
