Up in these forested mountains, after a heavy rain, you can hear the roar of the various local streams get going, and then that roar can continue for days or even weeks and months, depending on weather cycles. It is kind of remarkable to think about: all of that water that fell, and the snow higher up that is melting. The ground is saturated and then lets loose from underground springs, and all of that water falls back down via gravity and converges, following paths of least resistance and the memories of previous stream beds, and then flows sustained for some time long after the rains abate. It sounds like wind, or distant traffic flows. Sustained water traffic: distributed falling water becoming established in the land and then succumbing to the magnetism of the earth, concentrating and unifying as it descends, eventually to be dispersed and distributed once again.
